Originally Posted by
Lionel Lion
You know when you read a lot of these posts it’s almost as if you want people to lose their jobs. Shame on all of you.
Well said Lionel. This forum is, allegedly, for professional pilots and yet to see the number of nasty and vitriolic comments about a company that provides employment for the best part of 1000 pilots is deplorable. Why these detractors want to see Virgin fail is indicative of their twisted logic that they think it will hurt a successful businessman that they have issues with.
In reality it will hurt the rank and file employees. Not just the pilots but the cabin crew, check in staff, engineers, support staff and the list goes on. It will impact the all the other airport staff that support the operation from ATC to caterers and cleaners. It’s gut wrenching to see any company fail and especially when good friends lost their jobs such as at Monarch.
However, there is a huge difference between the companies that failed before, as sad as that was, and the likes of Virgin, BA, easyJet etc. These are, or were, successful companies providing jobs to the aviation industry. This crisis is not like anything seen before and so it is quite right that they lobby the government for support. I have no idea how this would work but I imagine it might be a loan or equity stake perhaps. For those of you that have an urgent need to keep trolling perhaps find another website to spew your poison onto. Just a thought.