whatever r3please says ... I can tell you from first hand.
His reasoning on the day for leaving the trip half way through ( and thats why he was fired) was that he was meeting his partner for a holiday, the disruption from the trip was due to the strike at LHR (which all crew had to put up with, regardless of their plans !!). It is odd that now he is saying he had a 'sick' partner, when he plainly told those on the trip he was upset as he was meeting his boyfriend for a holiday.
No, he was not a pleasure to work with.
If any crew member left a trip without permission, in any base, they would be fired. Regardless of the changed duty, or the reason for leaving.
If at the time, he had said he had a seriously ill friend/ family member, they would have let him leave the trip. But that was not his reason at the time. He deserves what he got. If we all decided to leave a trip just cos it gets disrupted, then where would the airline be?
Oh and yes I am LHR based, and no I aint a fan of the base (read my past posts as to why I came here). But this tool deserved to get the boot.
Oh and stop whinging, the contract always stated that if you left before your contract you had to payback the relocation allowance.
And no, the GM in UK doesnt fire people just cos he doesnt like them, he only fires them when they do monumental f*ck ups like you did
