tck... I do not blame you for enjoying your bonus and job while it lasts.
Training pilots saw all these antichrist safety decisions and then some occur at Gulf Air years ago.
The insurance companies when approached preffered not to listen to their predictions and warnings.
They said they "Costed risk on past track record".
GF insurance costs have gone up 300% after a crash and three hull losses.
Factor in other related costs and GF staff profit bonuses are light years away.
Today GF company servival must cause concern to the local banks that have lent them vast sums.
Today Gf shareholders have had to contribute further good money after bad.
Todays priority at GF is probably servival and not staff bonuses.
Sadly the old GF management was free to ignore any pilot safety inputs and thus let loose they virtually closed the flight safety department and ignored Omani DGCA inputs and any CRM courses.
Anythig offered that involved a cost was ignored.
With nobody "Guarding the Guards" they diligently worked towards and achieved the pilot predicted smoking hole and fizzing sea body count.
These mavericks were only bought to heel when they had totaly bought the airline into disrepute and had killed enough passengers and staff and destroyed enough airframes.
Only when the airline was on its knees and dead bodies everywhere was there a wholesale clearout of management.
IMHO..The management team member that first starts to downgrade trainers terms and conditions and later sticks his nose into lower checking standards and then flight safety and engineering standards is the first link towards a GF situation.
This type of manager will reduce Emirates eventually to what GF was in July 2000.
Sadly the management of Emirates, their insurance companies and their supervising CAA team appear to be allowing the same Anti Christ manager type free reign at Emirates.
It says volumes for their priorities and how little they have learned from the GF situation.