It's been reported that a very senior member of flydubai 'Cabin Crew / In Flight Service Management' has been putting-it-about (in the purely 'oral' sense) that the impending exodus of flydubai pilots, towards Etihad in particular, could easily be thwarted through nothing more than a phone call from GAG to his opposite number down the road in Etihad,... much the same as the similar arrangement also put in place between Emirates and flydubai, wrt stymying the the movement of pilots between the airlines.
One doubts however that Abu Dhabi's airline would actually give a ****! Indeed they might actually relish the chance to procure a lot of very experienced & capable pilots, from one of their Dubai competitors and, as such, they are probably rubbing their hands with glee, remembering all the aircraft that Etihad have on order, plus their own present chronic shortage of pilots!
And just imagine the mayhem (wrt grounded aircraft & loss of face for 'Dubai' ) that Etihad / Abu Dhabi could cause if they 'coordinated' the resignations of those they've recruited from within flydubai?!
Alas, with an endemically poor management skills base, plus a correspondingly even worse attitude (certainly so within certain tiers of management) it's probably too late that the penny is finally dropping, wrt the plight that they have 'managed' to produce around themselves within flydubai. But, with their typical knee-jerk reaction (and 'jerk' is indeed the word to describe them!), their response is seemingly to resort to yet more 'spoiling' & 'bully-boy' tactics, in a no doubt desperate attempt to stop an impending pilot exodus?!
But here's a thought. Rather than trying to implement yet another ban on the movement of staff between various UAE airlines, maybe GAG should simply sack some of the muppets in Upper-Middle Management, Safety, Rostering & HR, who've induced this crisis?!