The e-mail from MS only goes to prove just how incompetent the whole management team are. Perhaps if they spent less time at parties that only office staff can go to and actually did their jobs, then there wouldn't be such an appalling waste of money.
All year we have had pilots being shipped from one airport to another via taxi, sometimes covering hundreds of miles, turning up to do a flight only to find that the other pilot has also covered the same distance in a seperate taxi. How cost effective is that and who can't sort out the rosters properly to ensure the most efficient use of man power?
We also have the wonderful easyjet birthday book and pen, how much has that cost to send to every employee, let alone to produce.
As for the Step Change programme designed to help save money - why for goodness sake do we need a glossy 31 page booklet and a team of 16 people to tell pilots to use less fuel and not use the printer to print off the relevant info they need from their disc manuals because we need to save paper and cabin staff to empty toilet bins themselves. Surely the most immediate savings can be made by axing this whole team and drastically reducing the numbers of unproductive office staff in Lalaland.
As always it is the pilots and cabin staff that get the raw deal. Will the managers still get their bonus despite the totally incompetant way the company has been run - of course they will, but at the expense of those who have actually done the work and made the public happy.
Haven't been with the company very long, have now joined Balpa in the hope that if they get as much backing as possible then the company will take things a little more seriously. Will be dusting off the CV pretty soon as what incentive is there for me to stay and get my captaincy. What a joke - be loyal and stay with the company, try to work your way up the ladder and what do you get - a command but for 6 months at another base (Europe) and they keep 10% of your salary! My other half will certainly want me to do that - NOT.