With regard to pilots jumping ship . Even though the inevitable has been written large on the wall for some considerable time pilots have a huge inertia to leaving before the actual collapse of their employers. Pilots are reluctant to change employers due to the seniority based system of employment which will see them going to the bottom of their next employers seniority list. Their reluctance to leave is not a reflection of loyalty to their employer , who constantly holds them in contempt and continually erodes their conditions of service, but rather pilots hate change and the perceived uncertainty of a new job elsewhere. But the pilot community is increasingly becoming aware that there are airlines out there who want their licence and their experience and many pilots are now interviewing alternative prospective employers. The exodus is a trickle at the moment but as the pilot shortage begins to bite, especially in Asia which is seen as the world's major growth market, then that trickle must surely increase.