The most criminal thing of all is the BA culture that actually REWARDED the likes of De La Flop!!!
It was apparent to his successors that achievement and success, profitability and efficiency were not important, only brown-nosing, posturing, and continually writing OMANs, FOBS, FABS, and most of all -FIBS!!!
To have then stuffed management appointments with the likes of Phelan, Hutchings, Deacon, Devereux etc was remarkable, albeit not as remarkable as the appointment of Witts and Cheese - the latter was no more than a lapdog, and the former the last huge mistake in a long line coming from Rob Hearn in his days as Terry's lapdog.
Believe me, I wish you all well, but I have to say that EZY has been a breath of fresh air, not to mention a seriously worthwhile type rating and salary! As someone mentioned earlier, it was only ever the pension that made us all hang around - in many respects I wish they'd junked it five years ago, that would be around another 100K in my pocket by now!