I don't think too many of us outside AF would mind negotiations dragging on for a year ,if the end result was 11000€ net ,flying short haul 12 days a month, from a MRS base
Methinks you protest too much, me I would be
& crossing my fingers it lasted for a few more years.
As has been said, the companies problems are largely attributable to the "dead wood",including (certainly in the past) nieces/cousins etc of politicians & other high flyers
, employed as station managers in non-existant bases, & the like, or has that all been "tidied up" finally ?
Pilots/CC remuneration is but a drop in the ocean ,in comparison to the magnums of champagne poured down the drain by the "managers".