There is an aspect germane to this thread that doesn't seem to have had an airing. It's a lot easier groaning about terms and conditions when you are in gainful flying employment. Despite a shedload of experience on shorthaul jets, I've been unable to get an airline job since being laid off last March. I would willingly swap my predicament for any eJ terms and conditions, but I seem to be one of many lost in the black hole of the Orange application system - are you still accessing this forum, Cruella?
I have in the past suffered most of the slings and arrows that concern the unhappy posters here. In fact the only airline that did not have similar problems in terms of management and rostering was dear old Dan-Air ( alas, it didn't help them much). I won't argue that things couldn't be better in easyland but expecting the grass to be greener elsewhere in this curious industry of ours is, to my way of thinking a triumph of hope over experience.
Flying=Good; No Flying=Bad.