Gidday Gaunty - good to know you are still interested in aviation.
Br.Muzzy wrote:
"Just please don't make me pick up the financial and emotional pieces that big promises, big boys with big toys often don't deliver on!" Really.
Everyone interviewed who was in gainful employment was advised to desist with their application if they were risk averse.
Some actually took this on board and did withdraw.
No promises were made. Meantime the big boy with his 'toy' is in the process of giving a bunch of turbo prop pilots a crack at their first jet at no cost to them. A whole lot better deal than what is on offer at that other (very) big boy's outfit, or even that Aussie icon's regionals.
For obvious reasons I can not enter into any further debate about the business plan etc, other than to acknowledge that only a fool would believe a start up airline would have no financial and competitive hurdles to overcome. But give the man a break - he runs a successful operation in the UK with 747s and 737s, which is more than any of us can claim to have done.