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Old 19th Jan 2003, 09:34
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dontdoit
 
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A couple of points that you guys in easyJet need to realise:

1. eJ charges next to nowt for a lot of its tickets. You lot are well paid. How do you think it does this? By working you to the limits of your max allowable duty hours. Simple economics.

2. All this talk of a strike is hot air. You have only 55% BALPA membership. That's 45% of your workforce that won't even be in a strike ballot, plus whatever %age wont join you on the picket line. If you disrupt half your services, your customers will go elsewhere and the airline will go down, you can then have all the minimum rest you want.

3. None of you are conscripts (to the best of my knowledge). If you think it's so bad, just leave. There are plenty more unemployed, experienced people who will do your job.

4. Face it, the honeymoon is over. When things start running out, the first thing is usually the goodwill of the troops. It's starting to look more and more like Air Europe Mark II.
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