Don't sell yourself short Turtle, or do you mean 6% plus a step?
If we aren't given a 10% pay increase then we will continue to be below average paid pilots on our respective fleets - living in a country with higher living costs than any other.
There's a growing number of pilots who are contemplating leaving- by this I don't mean looking around, I mean contemplating contract offers they have in their inbox. This month I've flown with chaps who have offers in the States, Norway and those even considering going back to a low cost Irish airline. There's also Captains I know who are ready to set sail to China for shift pay increase and Turkey for essentially a pay cut as they've had enough of the 95 hour months with very little reward.
I have faith, for the final May, however I know I am in the minority. Not sharing the profit is greedy, not paying employees what they should is worse.