I hate to pop anybody's bubble, but I think we can trace the unrelenting attack against our group to one ill-advised decision our union made back in the early 90's. The A330 fleet had a world-wide grounding due to an engine problem (if memory serves me correctly). The AOA, for reasons that were sincere, yet I believe naive, decided to not help out the company with temporary work rule changes. It is my understanding that this so infuriated the senior levels of Swire that they made a decision to crush the pilot group. Well, here we are more than 20 years on. I felt it was a mistake at the time to not help in what was an obviously unusual and difficult situation. Sadly, I think we are still reaping the whirlwind for that decision.
