CC, fair comments. When I say the "pilot group allowed...etc" I do count myself in that number when I was at Flybe.
Balpa has only been recognised at Flybe for what, 5 years or so. It should have been sooner and the pressure applied to management should have been bigger. As it was that kind of pressure never existed until recently, I'm pretty certain that it would have been quashed swiftly without Balpa.
So we are all at fault.
I'm not on my high horse about it, I just want a better dealf for you, my friends and my ex-colleagues. Don't worry though, my attitude to Flybe's management is the same as the one I currently display to my present employer.
You do have to ask yourself though how did those pilots at other airlines get a better deal than Flybe? Pressure, that's all and that's all I'm suggesting to you now.