I have been thinking the last few days what I would do if being LH Management and face with such a situation. Indeed I would consider to only hire pilots going forward in shell companies somewhere (for example Ireland, which is fully legal and there are no laws against only leasing pilots) and set up new companies as long as I can keep them from the right to be unionised. Why can airlines not keep their pilots outsourced? Unbelievable how a certain minor group of professionals (who have obviously become over privileged) can continue to keep a globally operating company (with such a vast number of employees and customers) hostage. It surprises me that the German Government is not putting the pilots down at some point? And it amuses me that their "low cost" arm Germanwings is also striking. The pilots don't seem to get the entire point of what is going on in their industry.....
