Flaps - you mean well but wake up - read your posts - you sound like a candidate for a management job.
I've been told that members of the PC have discussed with management early starts after days off and this would be a change of the days off rules - currently 0600 earliest reporting but will change if this goes through becos thats what RW and the rest want
Ryan do 5 and 3 with out flying through the nite - yes so how are we going to do 5 and 3 and fly through the night?? Increase the crew number - oh yeh. I just see RW and the other bandits going for that
listen to yourself man - 'a pre existing shortage of crew' blah bl**dy blah -could have been the new CP talking. If it was pre -existing why wasn't anything done about it?? Why was the leave buy back at £1000 per day brought in at very short notice?? It was a bl**dy b*lls up as happens every summer and will do so again becos we don't have the resource to fly the high utilisation programme with the current roster patern and there is no hope of doing so with the one that gives us even more days off.
Quote 'it wouldn't matter what roster pattern was in force this would happen anyway' Too right with the plonkers running rostering it would - and next year when the PC have negotiated away the CAP371 rules, do you think RW will authorise buying back leave at £1000 per day again or will he think - hey lets abandon the 5 and 3 for the summer. usual b*llsh*t - a preexistig shortage - unusal market - a positon in the market - maintain our competive edge' Just wait for it to happen. Who do you trust!
And before you leap to the defence of the PC again, please just confirm the rumour that the chairman of the PC resigned becos he is going for senior managment job. What a mess.