I believe Mr Meat is a spoonerism, allowing the infamous individual to pass these annals un-named.
13000 staff cut so far is an accounting excercise. If you compare the staff numbers as published by BA in its accounts, I have figures as follows:
which shows how even from the obese 65k in 2000, we still have lost a maximum of 8000 employees. The rest is an accounting fudge, with people 'doubling-up' some jobs, and others sitting at home on full pay. Others stand around in Waterside pretending to be pot plants
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The fact is we have 3 people for every 2 jobs, in an industry where we cannot afford the luxury of a behemoth bureaucracy.
The old dog is right.