Do BALPA have any take on this, or are they being as lilly livered as they always were when asked to step up to the plate in Ryanair.
Maybe not (strictly speaking) "their patch", but surely some guidance & support could be provided to UK based/contracted pilots to enable them to support their Portugese based/contracted colleagues.
This whole divide/conquer cancer has to be resisted. When Contractors (or should that be pilots employed by wholly owned subsidieries ?) in Norwegian outnumber "core" pilots I hope enough progress has been made to enable (for example ) the ECA to coordinate things a bit better than seems to be the case thus far in Ryan or Easy.
It ain't rocket science, but I have the perception the will/impetus is somewhat missing in this task.