I understand your point. However, I state again for the record: I am not blaming the KA pilots. I blame our management. We have only recently been 'merged', but in reality we are still two separate airlines. Again, it is a hard sell to suggest that 3000+ CX pilots (and other staff) should see employees of another airline bump us of our 'own' airplanes. You can rationalise it all you like, but the reality is that it shouldn't happen, and in 'proper' airlines it wouldn't. I don't wish to see any of your benefits stripped away. This is about CX employees having their own conditions degraded without any recourse. In a way, CX is pitting the KA staff against us, not the other way around. The real blame lies with the usual suspects, our out of touch, venal and incompetent management. I respect the KA pilots and the job they do, I just don't think that the impact on the CX staff is fair in this case.