Jeez, Darth Bany is indeed some character!
Latest I heard:
A few years ago, when Chidambaram was the Managing Director, most directors got fed up working with him for his incompetence. They went to see the Prime Minister of the day, Jugnuth and told him they could not longer work with the fella. He told them that if they did not like it, they could p*** off.
In turn, Chidambaram decided to have a little revenge. He embarked on re-engineering the company. Hence, he decided to create 5 Chief Executive posts, and told all the directors that were already in the company that they will have to resign and reapply for the new, more powerful positions. He also said that he will head hunt abroad... There was a post called Chief Opertions Executive... Darth Bany had technically to resign to apply for this job, as the job of DFO was going to be scrapped all together. But Darth Bany refused... Somehow, he stayed as DFO with a COE on his head.On must bear in mind that besides his pilots licence, unlike a lot of his other management pilots, Darth Bany has not much in terms of accademic credentials... So getting the COE job was indeed out of his reach. He knew Chidambaram had cornered him on that one, but he managed to pull all the strings he had and stayed.
Somehow, Darth Bany ended up with not much to do and paced the corridors of his little FLight Ops Empire aimlessly days on end, feeling out of the loop and useless... Chidambaram was not able to move Darth Bany from his job as DFO. So, AIr Mauritius ended up with a FLight Ops Executive being paid big bucks, and wasting a truckload on a diminished DFO.
So, Darth Bany then orchestrated a little battle between ops and Darpoux and pulled a few strings and IOUs... Exit Darpoux, enter Johan van Jaarsveld, ex SAA VP with a bad track record with reference to treatment of pilots. ALso allegedly under investigation by the SA Scorpions (Elite anti-fraud squad) and potential owmner of a series of seks shops...
During his battles with Darpoux, and once the guy was gone, Darth Bany consolidated his power position. With JVJ, he claimed his right to run flight ops as JVJ was not a pilot... Hence, as he the power rises to his head, he f**** up the job, drops the ball many times and but manages to cover his tracks until he got caught with a pilot exodus that has become unmanageable. He tried all sorts of gimicks: getting skippers on the 340 and 767 to fly as in-flight relief, changing the way of logging flying hours for F/Os (so that bunk time would not count for log book and for Flight An Duty Time Limits), pushing people to fly over 18hours saying that it is legal ("It is legal because I am the DFO and say so"). [Hence why Mario has left MK] Of late, getting DCA to agree to impose 1 hour of Cpatain's discretion onto the crews, with total disregard to other provisions of the CAP371 level 2 extensions (see one of the previous posts)
The guy is out of control, and he is about to bring down the whole Air Mauritius with him. Indeed, ol' Piennar had a very good reason to keep the snake in teh bottle...
Meanwhile, Darth Bany has been saying that MALPA is a conspiracy of Franco-Mauritians and Muslim-Mauritians against a Hindu-Mauritian. Last time I checked, MALPA President, Russlan, was Hindu...
This guy lies, cons and will sell his own mother anyday to achieve his goal and quench his thirst for power.
The guy MUST go! Enough is enough. He thought that people will not figure things out one day? He thought that the whole world is dumb! Wrong assumption mate. Try again... But please, do yourslef, your family and everyone a f******* favour: GO AWAY! Leave us alone! You have already caused enough damage for the next 20 years!!! GO AWAY! Go and enjoy your retirement, NOW!!!! You will make SO MANY people HAPPY!