Maybe the pilot force should “honor” the mentioned past and layout the common future during the impending runway closure at Dubai. Their cooperation will be very much expected, rightfully so, but their going the extra mile and streching limits is flatly planned in.
Now might come the time to remember that others remembered inflation only when adjusting staff fares, but not employees salaries, the time to remember that any swap is rejected if it implies only 10 minutes overtime, but 10+ minutes unpaid discretion is expected.
Flexibility shold not be a one-way street. It will be the time to discover how much memory and cojones the flying workforce have or how much soap they are ready to continue to pick-up, because during the next couple of months some need their jockeys goodwill a little bit more than usual, a tad more than they like to I guess …