Originally Posted by
OutsideCAS
That would be sensible. Sacking staff when you don’t have enough as it is?. Model is not broken perhaps but it’s definitely needing some adhesive to stop the wheels falling off. And they are falling off if the reports are accurate.
On the other hand if bookings fall off a cliff then you won't need so many staff, like say 20% fewer...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-r...-idUSKBN1KF0X5
Low-cost end of the market in
any industry is notoriously sensitive, pax don't fly ryanair because they
like them, they put up with ryanair because it does the job at a low price, the minute it stops doing the job or having lowest price, the pax will be gone. Ryanair doesn't do frequent-flyer-miles or airport-lounges, if you have a bad flight there isn't anywhere to upgrade you to on the next one, and MOL will happily leave pax stranded without assistance or EU261 compensation. Every time that happens it's at least one pax lost, for a long time.
MOL doesn't care of course, plenty of work for his planes elsewhere in the EU, apparently, and the crew of course provided they want to transfer to another EU country with the same standards of EU law and judicial independence (*cough*)...