tedhl - I was wondering if you're caught up in all this mess!
I'm angry at both airline and pilots. The airline for having poor foresight and management (look at tedhl's MPO membership woes) and the pilots for calling in sick. Well, if we're that sick, maybe you should be retiring, then! What stress? You mean flying an airplane is not stressful when management meetings are?
Does anyone remember the strike by cabin attendants way back in 1991/92? about a week before Chinese New Year that paralyzed the airline. CX literally had to charter any plane it can find (some US carriers even) to fly their peak loads into and out of HK. I heard many people refused to take CX after that!