Everyone loves a jolly.
I was with you to begin with but when you suggested making the pilots pay for Springhawk out of their own pocket you lost me. Aside from the fact that a large part of the entertainments budget is already paid for by the team by way of the ‘Pigz’, if your answer is to shave off all the fun and remove any semblance of a good deal then you have just proven exactly why so many pilots are leaving.
You can all laugh and scoff and call pilots Prima Donnas all you like but when there are none left because all the fun has been sucked out of it and you’re asking OC PSF to jump into a Typhoon you’ll realise there is a very good reason why those pilots were complaining so much.
The politics of envy are alive and well but some people just can’t, or won’t, see it.
BV