Spot on Luke, and you usually are.
As we all know the industry is on a knife edge at the moment and none of us know which way it'll fall. War, imho, is inevitable as long as George W is at the helm and Tone remains his puppy dog, when is the guess.
Another worrying thing is MyTravel, with an accounting black hole of £50m and a share price of 18p what's going to happen to them? Guess(1)..... they go under and there are more experienced pilots on the market, or guess(2) they get taken over, which inevitably leads to restructuring and the possibility of some experienced pilots on the market.
Neither augurs well does it?
What we need to see is the experienced F/O's getting command, the other F/O's getting promotion to senior F/O's. This will create the vacuum lower down for people like me. I just don't see it happening yet.
The trouble with working for a living and getting older is that youthful optimism is replaced by cynical realism.
There have been few truer things said on this message board!