There is a substantial difference in contractual powers here. Airlines are using IATA meeting as a mean to orchestrate the degradation of pilot salaries and life styles. Pilots are just bitching on Pprune and looking at their shor term interests Look at the western pilot conditions up to the 80/90s and see how they deteriorated after deregulation and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Union are the only solution and in a globalized world pilots need a global union. We should start looking into something like it.. Pilots can stop the world from turning.