Originally Posted by
Atlantic Explorer
The only reason Eastern have survived is because the owner has pumped huge sums of his own money into it to keep it afloat. He just can’t bear to see it die. It’s been like this for years now. Any other “normal” company would have been wound up long ago!
There has never been a company strategy other than just lurch from side to side picking up bits of work as and when they come their way and very much depending on the mood of the day of the MD. Eastern was riding the wave of utilising the J41s which he got for pennies, donkeys years ago. It’s a vile place to work and the day to day disorganisation is staggering to witness, but on the plus side, it has given many pilots their first flying job and a foot on the ladder.
The staff have always been Eastern’s best asset- treated like crap but always went above and beyond the call to bail out the company, time and time again. Don’t think there’s many of the true original staff left now. Many good guys were given the push around the pandemic and then shortly after asked to come back as they had miscalculated things. You couldn’t make it up! Shambles.
Never a dull day at HUY. Beware of a call to the Bosses office.