It seems that the Pilot's bashing that has gone on for the last few weeks, and has increased in severity the last few days with the politicians getting involved, is having a positive effect on the standing of the pilots in this dispute. The tone in the local papers, which are nothing else than the governements mouthpiece, is changing somewhat and a more balanced view is put foreward. Perhaps some of the reporters start to realise that untill now it has been a one sighted presentation of facts and that the pilots have been shortchanged in explaining their side of the story. But there is an old saying that a builder friend of my always used " It has to get worse before it gets better". It is very obvious that it will get much worse here, and we even don't know if it will get better.