Very charitable thought LGW but somehow I doubt if theres much sympathy from the scores of Pilots Cabin Crew and Ops who having been dicked from pilar to post since the man from Luxembourg arrived and could take no more..... It is ironic indeed that the very people they now want back to run ops are the great guys and girls who walked away ages ago.
This acknowledgment that centralisation does not work ( even when managed by compliant yessmen managers.....the only type left) goes to the absolute core of what Lux was about.
If centralisation is a failure and you cannot achieve economies by getting rid of local operational centres .....then you employ just as many people as there were before....but with a huge overhead of Harvard MBAs with important job titles to carry as well.
There is another unspoken issue which is that the cultures and work ethics of the different parts of the company are very different. We may all be European but the approach, motivation and indeed language of someone at Stapleford is not the same as someone in Germany, luxembourg or France...
The venture was always doomed to fail.....and, Im just guessing here, Its taken the complaints of several wealthy owners that they had had enough.....for fingers to be taken out of ears....