Completely correct, two of my good friends have just left for warmer climes and unless the pay offer and attitude changes I will be following them. There is is a major probelm at virgin now which is ongoing between the pilots and management, somewhere along the line it will change however the jury is very muchout on how it resolves itself.
Lifestyle? Remember this is a long haul operator that runs primarily east-west, therefore days off are often spent recovering from jet lag. With new jaa regs the company will be able to squeeze even more out of us and pay us even less given their latest plans.
Oh and of course first and foremost remember than in the last round of redundancies and lay offs the low cost sector actually got bigger!! we will suffer during and after any war
My advice, keep your 20% get rid of your income tax and go to emirates, lower command time better money and more sun.