Wake Up & Smell The Coffee
God, it has been fascinating watching the great Qf debate here. It has been like watching the Dinosaurs after the asteroid hit the earth. They're dead already but don't even know it yet. The electronic message hasn't travelled from the tip of the tail to the very small brain.
The simple truth for you Qf longhaul folks is that you priced yourself out of the market some time ago. The world moved on and the LoCo's changed everything for ever. There are always people who will do more work for less money, in any job. If you had the smarts to know this you might still be viable.
Those of you who post regularly here - Doesn't it bother you that everything is always everybody elses fault and never yours. Its the Union, its the Pilots, its the Managers, its the Government, its the Competitors - no, hang on, now its the shorthaulers. If you gave up a small fraction of the energy that you give to fighting each other to fighting for the cause, you might have a chance. As it is your senior managers must find it hard to get up off the floor from laughting. And all the time the electronic message gets closer to the little brain.
A job loss is a tragedy for anybody - my heart goes out to those Qf staff who are affected through no fault of their own and who know better than to winge in here. The crews in Europe have worked out what is going on in the business some time ago, and have gone through all the pain - with more to come. The USA still has the pain to come thanks to chapter 11. In australia you are going through it now. Those who survive in the future will be those who can see the future and adapt. Those who won't survive are here in this forum, hissing and spitting at everybody - it wont help them in the end.