Sorry guys it may be painful, but some facts have to be stated:
1. If FR and the service it offers is so cr@4P why will 14 million passengers fly with it this year ?
2. If its so badly managed why will it be the most profitable airline in the world this year ?
3. Why does it have one of the best pilot pay/roster packages in the industry ?
Its called success ! Successful airlines will prosper, old fashioned Dinosaurs with staff who long for the 1930's culture and attitudes will not. We have to change and adapt, or we become nothing more then DoDo's.
People have short memories, airlines come and go (they always have and always will), you might work for the greatest outfit in the World but if it doesn't make a profit it has no right to exist.
This arguement will never be popular with pilots, because quite rightly they are concerned with technical excellence in their field, but you need to have an airline to sell that excellence to.
If we are not careful the British/US airline pilot will become a thing of the past, as is the British/US merchant seaman. We need to be flexible and realistic in these diifercult times.
OK you can now do your worst, my tin hat is in place.