Originally Posted by
DonTrumpet2020
BA seem happy enough to take money from the government through the job retention scheme.......and we won’t mention all the money they cost the taxpayer when they were the State Airline....
The job protection scheme is designed to protect/help employees who would otherwise be made redundant. Although it will help the finances of a company such as BA out it hardly qualifies as a handout as they could have saved themselves the cost another way by laying people off. The money goes to the furloughed employees through BA as the middleman, they don’t pocket it themselves.
Anyway nobody in the aviation world wants to see Virgin go (apart from Willie)..