" as long as the board and shareholders are comfortable with me doing it"
Well then, that is easily fixed isn't it.
Lets call time please and let him go back to wherever he came from.
Any CEO who wants to alienate his entire workforce has no place in any company.
It beggars belief that this folly continues in the way that it is unfolding and his half veiled inferences about A380 Captains shows there is no end in sight to the delusion.