An interesting detail in all of this is the fact that those pilots "stranded" on overseas flights will be paid.In the past a lock-out meant just that and the pilots would have to make their own arrangements to get home.I would suggest that this is a good bargaining point for the AIPA.They have domestic pilots not involved in this dispute being locked-out.They should threaten to bring home all those pilots in LHR,BKK.HKG etc and leave those aircraft uncrewed.It would take a week to get those aircraft back when this is resolved as it will be, because the government has too much to lose if it can't handle this one.