Airhart, I don't know how many times you need to hear it but Flybe have just made their largest profit ever. It won't disappear if you get a pay "rise" rather than a pay "stay the same relatively".
Maybe the management will have to take smaller bonuses. Bonuses that they will get regardless of their performance. That's just changed by the way, did you notice it?
Look at it from JF's seat. He'll drag things out as long as necessary and then magically you get an offer of a pay rise of almost what Balpa asked for to start with. He will expect, and you are proving him right, that most of you will think that he's been pushed into a corner and had to back down. He hasn't. He's played you all like a two bit piccolo and if you accept this offer he'll be laughing all the way to the bank with his huge bonus that he didn't have to do anything for in his R8 that he can afford because the rest of the workforce are so cheap.
If you accept this measly offer of no pay rise what makes you think that you can ever get anything better out of Flybe? You're going to go on strike again are you? Like you did last time...no wait, you didn't. You accepted a crappy offer so that's what you'll get again.