<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Shout:
It's a disgrace that the public is being made to rearrange our travel schedules to avoid missing meetings all because of a ridiculously unrealistic claim for a double digit pay rise. If my highly paid staff asked for that in today's conditions they wouldn't be there long. </font>
And you'd be out of business. The airlines can't fly without pilots. The pilots know it and they extort salaries far in excess of what they would be able to get otherwise...