LX, I am not answering your posts for your sake, as there is little chance that the stiffness of your, let’s say “positions”, is likely to be enhanced by any kind of sensible reasoning. You seem to be stuck in the concrete of your prejudiced ideas and not even worth the effort to be pulled out of them. However, my fellow aviators, whom you despise so passionately, deserve a little entertaining reading to balance your provocative posts, and I hereby offer them one by accepting this joust with you.
1. If showing respect for your employer and those who have invested some millions in your company is 19th century tradition and not done in your modern era, I take that as a compliment.
I do respects persons, for their being persons and for what they do as humans; if these persons happen to contribute to the national economy and welfare, to manage decently an organisation, to direct people, then they deserve respect, whether they err or not. An “investor” is not necessarily a person, you say it yourself below, it is, more often than not, a financial institution. I do not care for people, ideas or systems that put institutions before and above people!!!
In the middle ages and, still today, in developing countries, the plebe would obey blindly, in awe, to the Lords or the rich Bourgeois who would exploit them. That era is over! It is not my modern era, it is simply today and in the western civilisation.
2. …it will mean the end of the pilot shortage, but also the end of the company.
Read again this marvellous sentence of yours and find out the oxymoron in it!
To you fellow aviators, I will not insult your intelligence by explaining it!
….In case you do not know: most shareholders are banks, and they are not afraid to write off a wrong investment.
See answer to point 1. BTW, have you heard of the concept “Investing in people”?
3. Pilots are the best-paid group within Brussels Airlines. If you call their salary peanuts resulting in monkeys, what kind of animals are all other employees then?
You have a fluent knowledge of what is called “business” English, but your understanding of the lingua Britannica stops there. Actually, it is your understanding of lingua homini that needs polishing. Aesop, Phaedrus, G. Chaucer, La Fontaine and Gert Jan Van Dijk have all been using animal world as a comparison to the human world. However, to grasp its subtlety, one has to be able to escape the surly bonds of Earth, on which you seem to be definitely glued.
Closer to the topic, it is obvious to all and sundry with half a working brain, that the adventure of Sabena-SN Brussels-Brussels Airways is utterly political and has no foundation in sound economical development of the transport industry.
Pilots are a better (not best) paid group not only in Brussels Airlines but also in all Airlines and in most Air Forces and Navy Aviation in the world. There are reasons for that and if you do not know them then you are not part of the aviation world. Pilots are also the most envied group of professional, by all other groups of the industry, for their higher income and for their ability to escape those surly bonds of Earth (which even passengers cannot do). For those coveted privileges, pilots pay an un-assessable price, which is invaluable to them but which the non (professionally) piloting community (of which you seem to be part) cannot and will never be able to comprehend.
I hope their planes won't be falling apart and flown by junior pilots without experience 
Thank god the Avro is the only plane with 5 APU's so nothing can happen lol
