Well, 4468, I have to give you credit. Firstly, remembering the quite awful slanging which alternated between BRAL and mainline, probably to no-one's benefit except management. Yes, you were right. But who would have thought that the beancounters in BA could still have managed to lose money with such an opportunity. No surprises now having experienced both them, their lies and incompetence and the equally pathetic characteristics of our home grown lot.
Sorry if you felt you were lacking sympathy, I can tell you are a big enough individual not to reciprocate your perceptions to the current set of unfortunates at SOU.
For the future - well, two posts telling us it's not as bad as it seems.
Just give us a few examples of positive news then please. Payrises? Job prospects? Expansion? New types? Even official talk of ideas and concepts for expansion if we DO make a profit would be good, it would show there was some sort of a PLAN!!! other than the constant base closure, route stoppages, pay stagnation etc.
Of course, 4468 is also technically correct when he says
Of course to be technically accurate, the "the demise of the regional part of British Airways PLC" took place about 4 years ago, when mainline pilots and aircraft were eased out of MAN and BHX.
However I think most people might think a wholly owned asset stripped subsidiary was also part of the corporate entity. Let me not be unfair however, because I believe he is absolutely right, no doubt Eastern, or Euromanx, or Loganair, or Emerald will end up doing the routes, and just like Air South West, will in fact make an absolute bloody fortune. The pity with hindsight is that mainline didn't just bugger off and, having asset stripped our LHR slots, left a BUSINESSMAN (as opposed to the idiots Evans, Witt and Hutchings) to make a fist of running what were pretty well sound routes all round. Again, 4468 is probably right, LCY will survive, INV and maybe IOM run in reverse with 737s from LGW, and the rest will be the subject of crocodile tears from WW.
Please someone, give me some solid reasons why I'm wrong, why WW really would like to keep us, why it's all an accounting trick....in the meantime, my sim ride with Thomsonfly is two weeks away.
