"The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch"
Quote from actor Scott Glenn (playing Captain Bart Mancuso) in The Hunt for Red October.
Hot and Heavy, your right about negotiating a better deal - the offer Qantas made to AIPA on the last day of the 21 day compulsory conciliation (which AIPA walked away from as our negotiators were instructed by COM not move from their "final position") was much better for pilots than this decision.
That QF offer document was floating around some AIPA folk for a while (although that 21 day period was supposed to be confidential). I'm sure its confidential now!