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Old 25th Jul 2005, 08:38
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You're dead right about that TD. And it's true that you can dine okay-iish on airplanes if you're willing to pay for the privilege. However, what I was aiming at was the general impression of a company's capitalisation as judged by the state of it's facilities. Sky Chefs Gatwick on Manor Royal was just about passable as a going concern, I always felt sorry for the fleet engineer having to cobble together two lorries into one just to keep em rolling. No, what I mean is that if one looks at say a Microsoft office & one sees shiny marble, free ice cream bins & all the trappings of a company making a few bob & sharing it around & then compare that with the average catering operation, it's plain to see that you're operating on a 1 maybe 2% margin & that don't leave much headroom when the bombs start going off.
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