Originally Posted by
wombat watcher
Are you sure?
The inaugural Chief Pilot was an ex Ansett pilot ,Indeed, he was the Ansett VP in the AFAP in the 1989 dispute.
Indeed the first CP was ex-Ansett, but he sure as hell made sure other Ansett pilots weren’t employed. Spineless turncoat. I know a lot more information first hand, including information that came directly from the office of the inaugural HR manager and several other members of Godfrey’s boys club, but I will decline to comment about that publicly for legal reasons. Suffice to say there are many stories told at the odd pissup of former AN, ANZ and other airlines. But as mentioned, the toxicity commenced very early in the peace. So yes, one or two ex-AN have gotten through, but less than 1%.
Branson sold the public and the staff his fluffy nice guy/just here to make aviation fun and fair bull**** and people swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
VB staff, and then VA, climbed over each other to rise through the ranks. Nothing has changed over the past 2 decades, if anything it has gotten worse.
Make no bones about it, JH is there to build up the company on behalf of her Wall Street masters and then flog the lemon on the sharemarket, again. Her take will be huge and she will then ride off into the sunset with tens of millions in the bank. It’s been done before. Remember the initial float of VA, while loyalist staff worked for peanuts and the airline owned no assets they floated the lemon and Branson made around $960m, Godfrey and Sherrard made close to $100m each and other members of the boys club made anywhere between $1m and $10m. not a bad little earner ey? When it is floated again JH won’t have to work for a very long time. That’s the thing about the Wall Street white shoe brigade, they always take a big chunk of coin while the peasants fight over the carcass.