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The Real Slim Shady · 28th June 2009, 12:40

I cannot comprehend the manifest inability so many posters have of the reality of the current situation.

We are all in the midst of a global financial crisis: the aviation industry is in meltdown. Meandering through the threads on this board brings you a precis of the status quo: the BA thread discusses losses at BA and cutbacks in employment, the Virgin thread deals with pilot redundancies at VS. The bmi and bmibaby staff face uncertainty following the takeover by LH, easyjet reported interim losses of £129.8M to March 2009.

The largest and best known carriers in the country are cutting back and suffering the pains of the recession: the list of collapses in the last year is long and distinguished.

So your solution is - let's start a campaign for union recognition in an Irish company which made a small profit, is expanding and recruiting and is universally known to be antipathetic to unions.

If the few tubthumpers persist in running headlong over the cliff and the lemmings blindly follow them you will find that the smaller UK bases will close first with the aircraft transferred to existing and new European bases and the marginal routes chopped; the more lucrative routes will just be operated as W patterns from Europe.

If you are unable to grasp the simplicity of this response, which will be presented as a commercial necessity due to increasing costs in the UK regions, you really should stick to just flying the aircraft and leave the more complex decision making to others.

Whether you are in the pro-BALPA or anti-BALPA camp matters not: the outcome of pursuing this ill-timed campaign will be an unmitigated disaster for pilots, cabin crew, engineers and ground staff throughout the UK, both those working for Ryanair and their contracting companies and those youngsters looking for their first job in the industry.

28th June 2009, 12:40	#26 (permalink)
The Real Slim Shady Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Dre's mum's house Posts: 1,296	I cannot comprehend the manifest inability so many posters have of the reality of the current situation. We are all in the midst of a global financial crisis: the aviation industry is in meltdown. Meandering through the threads on this board brings you a precis of the status quo: the BA thread discusses losses at BA and cutbacks in employment, the Virgin thread deals with pilot redundancies at VS. The bmi and bmibaby staff face uncertainty following the takeover by LH, easyjet reported interim losses of £129.8M to March 2009. The largest and best known carriers in the country are cutting back and suffering the pains of the recession: the list of collapses in the last year is long and distinguished. So your solution is - let's start a campaign for union recognition in an Irish company which made a small profit, is expanding and recruiting and is universally known to be antipathetic to unions. If the few tubthumpers persist in running headlong over the cliff and the lemmings blindly follow them you will find that the smaller UK bases will close first with the aircraft transferred to existing and new European bases and the marginal routes chopped; the more lucrative routes will just be operated as W patterns from Europe. If you are unable to grasp the simplicity of this response, which will be presented as a commercial necessity due to increasing costs in the UK regions, you really should stick to just flying the aircraft and leave the more complex decision making to others. Whether you are in the pro-BALPA or anti-BALPA camp matters not: the outcome of pursuing this ill-timed campaign will be an unmitigated disaster for pilots, cabin crew, engineers and ground staff throughout the UK, both those working for Ryanair and their contracting companies and those youngsters looking for their first job in the industry.