Rejoice!
Well the BACON SLICER forecasted much of this,- many of you dismissed what I said and likened my posts to half empty glasses rather than half full glasses of wine! So I was right. Correctly managed a BA low cost/Regional airline could have been a major player from 2000 onwards, allowing GO to prosper would maybe have stopped FR/EASY/Baby in their tracks but that did not happen, a successful GO could have absorbed the BACX regional element and produced a major European mid to low cost player. Oh dear. What a complete mess it has turned out to be despite the efforts of some truly professional operators both landside and airside – they never listen to us as we are only pilots.
However you all should rest assured you chaps/ girls will be welcomed into one of Britain’s most progressive business and I firmly believe Jim French will deliver on his promises. You are quite lucky really as Walsh would have simply closed the airline next year anyway, trashed the airline with corporate spin, dumped the planes and made hundreds redundant.
Congratulations to Captain Corelli – (read above), he has the right attitude! However many BACON Types will have to adapt to a huge culture change, I hope you all can and it will not be easy after all this time.
No more silly disruption payments
No scheduling agreement that stunts the business
No more BAR element
No more BA worldwide travel
No more confirmed Business travel
No more 2 or 3 sector days
No more expensive BA infrastructure
No egomaniac TRE/IRS’s in the sim
No more delaying flights for headset wipes for the Captain for instance! You know who!
Instead you will find a very different culture at FlyBe-
Yes- allows you to take a sensible amount of fuel
Yes -does not leave the crews worried about what will appear on the digital flight monitoring system.
Yes- no uniform in the sim!
Yes - lets you feel part of a progressive company
Yes- no more career driven ex (failed) pilots in management positions like Hutchings / Deacon / Phelan who all thinks Waterside beckons. Not.
And the best thing ever – you don’t have to wear those silly hats anymore!!!!!!!!
Have fun flying again- you will.
Welcome to commercial aviation!
Captain Bacon Slicer retired.
Last edited by Bacon Slicer; 5th November 2006 at 23:15.
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