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The way GTD went quiet is worth recounting.
When I put my name and picture on the website and took responsibility for it, I expected to be sent a contract termination letter the next day. It took over 3 weeks (I suspect they wanted to run it all past their lawyers first), but it did arrive. What I did next was I approached the union of which I was a dues-paying member (IALPA, in Dublin) for legal help and got more or less "f off" for an answer. Then I approached the RYR pilots themselves for MICRO-DONATIONS which would enable me to sue Brookfield/Ryanair in court. This is where it got surreal: there were less than ten takers on that one. That's when I turned my back on it and realized that the pilots had a rescue fantasy in their heads where someone else (gov't entity, union, international aid organization....), not THEMSELVES played rescuer. They wanted to remain passive while someone else came to their aid rather than stand up and fight. I could not join that fantasy, and went off to bigger and better things. My post-Ryanair life has been like a personal renaissance for me, feeling like a freed slave in love with the world again.
I hope the best for Ryanair pilots, but I fear the worst. I think most are too young to realize that the seeds they are planting today will be their crop of hemlock later in their careers. Perhaps even more wanton is the fact that most of the rest of us actually think that the poison crop will be confined to Ryanair and not take over the whole industry -- despite abundant evidence that it is already doing just that.