The true problem at CX is not the cost of the pilots. Those expenses (per pilot) have been going down steadily over time. The real issue is that win-win solutions have been ignored in favor of win-lose or even lose-lose. CX feels it loses every time the pilots get anything good. This is a false assumption based on Pareto Optimality (Google it). Some issues are win-lose or lose-win, but many more are win-win or lose-lose. CX has an uncanny ability to choose the latter. They just can’t help themselves because of their institutional contempt for pilots. Pilots, like it or not, are the lifeblood of any airline. We truly are the grease that allows all the other gears to work together. Try to cut us out of the equation or minimize our role and the result is what you see now at CX. They truly believe this operation is like Coke bottling.