I don’t want to engage in any personal discussion because frankly I don’t have a dog in this fight. Neither Airline is perfect. However, 20-30 pilots from one have moved further west, 0 Pilots moved the other way.
This is all public info but to save you from Googleing:
- There was a PAY2FLY program via BAA Baltic Aviation. Complete strangers wearing the uniform etc... paying to sit in a 777.
- There was an engine failure over the Atlantic and a return single engine all the way back east german base.
- Union recognition and transparent, equal employment terms and conditions among the pilots are vehemently fought against by management, using all kinds of interesting „strategies“ to keep the „sheep in line“.
8 years ago there was a real chance, it could’ve have been a great, fun place to work, that chance was destroyed for the benefit of fery few.
A good sum up: It has more in common with East Germany than just location. Look back 25 years and you’ll get it.