Originally Posted by
Paragraph377
Virgin has always had a fear of hiring ex-Ansett staff. They did it from day 1 of operation and tried to avoid hiring pilots, cabin crew and ground staff. The Virgin culture became toxic early in its life as an airline and it sounds like that is still the case.
And as a result (not only Ansett, by the way, Qantas and TN as well) their operation is a joke, largely directed by kids virtually out of high school and MBA types who populated all the plethora of 'specialist' roles, none of whom were specialists in anything other than BS.