Basil
I was very interested in your comments regarding Monarch's weak commercial dept and would be interested to hear how you come to that conclusion.
If you work for another airline as sugested then i would guess you would have little contact with them. More to the point if you have time to knock the competition you either cannot be very busy, you've taken your eye off the ball, or perhaps you were not offered a position in the new regime.
I have found both the old and new team to be highly professional and commercially minded.