CD,
<<the 747 crews who insisted on travelling business class everywhere they went >>
1. Not everywhere, just on longhaul positioning flights.
2. Flying around the world may be Holiday for you but it is Work for us.
3. EAAC had to have experienced B747 crews to start the operation - no other way and we would not have worked for poor terms & conditions.
4. £1K extra before tax for a J class ticket didn't bring the company down.
5. Rather think misuse of expensive aircraft, misuse of crew, witholding of spares, APU u/s, syphoning off of funds etc. etc.
EAAC is the seventh civil airline for which I have flown and, to put it kindly, there was a breathtaking lack of understanding of the support required for a worldwide operation and the costs incurred by a B747 sitting on the ground, subchartering at short notice when the sub knows he can charge top rate or putting 440 pax in an hotel. Staff training did not appear to feature in the business plan.
ps: Give a dog a beach, I did consider an apology but then I thought 'Nah, he was far too triumphant.' - buy you a beer sometime.