Regarding your #40 post McNugget.. Your ideas there are eminently sensible but accountants cannot account for goodwill so it doesn't exist in the modern world. They can only account for flights full of paying passengers departing or not departing. We will never win that argument with this company.
Regarding our inflation protection, I realise that others have got 4%, or similar, pay rises and the pilots have not. It's one of my main frustrations, but USD inflation is more like 10% pa. That's what is required as a pay rise to protect spending power and we will not get it.