........and just as ridiculous is that there are 8000 pilots in the US and a couple of hundred in Australia without a job yet they too are "discouraged" from accepting a position with CX.....bit hard to leave a job when it no longer exists......as the AOA committee will soon find out when they slowly fade into obscurity, unless of course they bother to ask the opinion of their membership re the ban because no one that I speak to supports it. Nor do they attest to even being asked to vote on it's implementation. Some union eh?