Mr A Tis, as much as it pains me to say it regarding the charter work, you are correct IMHO. The company seems to go through fazes where it concentrates on certain area's. Recently the MON management have used a very blinkered and short sighted approach to charter work, and I hasten to add, they have been able to get away with this purely on the back of the success of the scheduled ZB services.
What isn't widely known however is the fact that the charter business accounts for close to half of the year in year out revenue, and it is also a more profitable endeavor.
MON as a company was previously innovative (the introduction of the 757 is a good example) and was staffed by some of the best thinkers in the industry, it is now however rapidly being over taken by the cost of everything & value of nothing brigade.
Going full circle, the success of the ZB services is down to the innovation of a certain individual, the team he has surrounded himself with, and the staff who operate to the best of their ability on a daily basis.
On the charter side, there are things happening (like the 787) but in the interim, as ever recently, MON has failed to innovate, failed to foresee the blindingly obvious, and will be reacting to the competition, rather than setting the standard that it once used to.
Rant off
