It is not a level playing field.
Excel are able to compete on an unfair basis as they do not have to meet all the costs of ownership and employment during the slow winter periods that many of their competitors do.
How can you not care or are you all so far removed from reality?
It is also wrong to compare this with Brits flying abroad in places like Singapore, Hong Kong, UAE etc. as those nations NEEDED the ex-pats due to loack of native experience.
Jack the Lad
[quote] ever heard of the one; hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon, the little dog laffed....etc . . <hr></blockquote>
A well argued and reasoned point of view!!!!!!
Perhaps "I'm alright, Jack" Would be more appropriate!!!
Diesel8
[quote] As far as what the rules are in the US and the UK, well, that is something for you to change. Pressure your goverment, your appointed leaders, our unions! But, as the starter of this topic said, only one public response. Interresting!
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I think that this is what E cam is trying to suggest that we do, and there have been many posts on this forum on this topic. However people like Jack the Lad just do not seem to be in favour of this.
Funny that all the posts in the past have been very anti wet leasing and now all of a sudden most people seem to think that it is fair.
Has Tony Blair really knocked our British morale to such a low level as this?
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