Crewing gimp - some very valid points raised.
However crews will moan about ops/crewing and the other way round and both feel that they have reason to, but the fact is that an airline can only survive with team work.
From a flt crew point of view we saw tremendous waste of resources due to a lack of planning (the last being 3 taxis travelling between the same airports with three different crew members within 45 mins of each other). But I am convinced that it wasn’t the result of incompetence by individuals at BOH, quite the opposite, they all worked hard but the set up didn’t allow for an efficient operation. This was frustrating for everyone, flight crew and operations alike.
We where all trying to pull in the same direction however no one knew what direction that was.
I think we all knew that this was on the cards, you don't have to be an accountant to realise that having crews that only fly 250 hours (or less in some cases) a year is not going to be making too much money.
With any luck EAC MkII will learn and become stronger for it. If the correct decisions, hard but necessary they may be, are made now by the management who knows what will happen......
Best of luck everybody.
