Kingfisher If you think the day will ever come when any UK Airline will ever worry if F/O's like you leave to what you think are greener pastures,then you are living in a fool's paradise.
With the EU expanding there is an ever increasing number of qualified Pilots available , also due to a huge surplus of Pilots in airlines like SAS + large numbers of wannabes all paying their own way and seemingly prepared to pay for ratings ,licences,work for nothing etc etc.
There never ever will be a Pilot shortage in the UKand therefore unfortunately airline bosses will exploit that to the utmost and virtually do what ever they want.Supply and Demand always is the controlling factor.