Nightfire

Well, since you seem to be so clever and well-informed, you will probably stick with your opinion no matter what facts you're confronted with. Believe what you like, it won't change anything anyway, but you're wrong. You probably didn't read any local newspapers over the last two years, did you, and you never had to go to an office in Slovakia with a Hungarian passport. Otherwise you'd know very well about the political problems between Slovaks and Hungarians and the way things have gotten worse and worse over the past years. That's just for the general situation.

In everyday-life at skyeurope, if you were a Hungarian and ever had anything to do in Bratislava base, you wouldn't be so naive. Verbal abuse, discrimination and being blackened with management - all common practice, particularly by some elder ex-military pilots who consider themselves the bosses.
On one occasion, Hungarian pilots were being referred to as "monkeys" by one senior Slovakian captain during an official meeting. On another, a Hungarian captain, after criticising a flaw he had found in the SOPs, was denounced via email as "not being proficient" and "unprofessional behaviour". I still have a copy of that email in my skyeurope-folder.
Slovak pilots flying in and out of Budapest, on the other hand, often showed a high level of arrogance when dealing with ground staff. On another occasion, a purser came back to Budapest after some training in BTS, crying.
And talking about CAs (the weakest and most worthless crew-members among all, cynically speaking), how about the fact (for which I have the paper to prove) that Slovakian CAs got all their uniform parts for free, plus replacement of any spoilt items which is older than a year including shoes and handbags, while the Hungarians had to buy all but one set of clothes (dress, blouse, pullover and tee-shirt), including expensive and basic uniform-parts like winter coat and samsonite-bag on their own expense; needless to mention they never got any replacement? You didn't know that, did you.

The fact that there are quite a lot of foreigners working in Bratislava base doesn't mean that the slovakian part of the Management considers skyeurope as a Slovakian airline. Foreigners are only being tolerated now as long as Skyeurope needs them, but the particular problem they have is with the Hungarians, whom they just hate and bully. Some Hungarian first officers even preferred to give up their pending upgrading, in favour of working for WIZZ, because it was apparent to them that they would have been the end of the food-chain under Slovak management (Skyeurope Hungary was a separate airline before). Having worked for skyeurope for almost three years, I know the "friendliness" very well with which I and my colleagues were treated; I got nothing but empty promises.
Or perhaps you think that nice smiles from a few girls, and friendly emails thanking you for all your effort mean that you're part of the family.

So no matter how much you call me a liar who doesn't think and who talks bullsh**, unless you have any evidence other than that silly email from management (which was so contradictive to the obvious facts that it convinced nobody), perhaps you would like to re-think for a while.

And I'm very well aware of the fact that skyeurope wants to make profit. Looking at their financial situation, it doesn't look very likely that they will do so in the near future, but as long as they continue finding some investors there is still hope. Now I could mention some of the ridiculous and desperate measures that were taken to lower the costs from minus 40million, but why don't we just take a look at the shares of skyeurope, hm? That speaks a clearer language.
Do you see any change in the downward trend since the announcing-, and/or since the actual closing of the bases? Do you see any rise in the shares since the begin of operations in Vienna? Do you expect any significant rise in the shares for the next year? Last year, around December, the shares went up to six Euros for a short while, and now they are at less than two-twenty.

Getting upset just for being confronted with the facts, are you? Go back and do your homework.

And, by the way, I'm neither a Hungarian, nor a Slovak.