Originally Posted by
captain8
My grip against the current situation, is that pilots are in their own tunnel, and are unwilling to think outside this. For example, my local authority received 4million quid to fight covid. Thats for a city with 200,000 inhabitants . Yet Virgin wants half a billion quid so it can fly a few fat cat business men to the states, and deliver a few bucket and spade holidays to those who can afford it.
Is flying that important? Has it now become irrelevant?
You do realise the sheer size of the direct and indirect contribution aviation makes to the UK economy, right?