Deepknight, a lot of what you say is also true, just the other side of the argument for promoting self preservation. I could have said the same myself, but feel we could have fought a bit harder.
A lot of what is said about TC and TCX confuses the problems of the airline with the much bigger problems of the group. Post merger with MYT, TC had a 100million in the bank and M F_N pi##ed it up against a wall. Bad group management caused the downfall of TC.
Now, (hopefully) good group management is picking up the pieces and everyone is expected to suffer a little/lot to make HG dream come true. The TC shareprice seems to operate in line with the 'bootstrap' system in that it has nothing other than itself lifting it higher. Let us hope the bootstraps don't snap.
You can argue til the cows come home whether the few million saved by cutting pilot T&Cs really saved the airline, we will never know as the vote (62% 48% is no way a clear cut majority with the number of voters involved) went for the safe option. We still need to grow some backbone as there is a fair chance that having faced us down once, they will be back for more at some time in the future. Maybe they tried already with a almost un-noticed change to redundancy policy or maybe that just an administrative oversight?
We are where we are, and we are a site better off than many, but to stay that way we have to be prepared to support our (not always perfect, but a hell of lot better than nothing) CC.