Rose tinted
"Some of you need to take your rose-tinted BA shades off..."
I know of nobody at BRS who wears them.
That sort of comment is an example of the lack of commone decency displayed by the management. Of course bases have to close and airlines need to make money that is not the point.
You can take tough decisions but it depends HOW you impliment them & just tossing peope asside without looking after them or handling them sensitively has no excuse.
W_18 has hit the spot too. It will not be the managers who take the heat but as always those at the coal face. These people have already had one re-organisation after another and their once profitable airline trashed. Surely the way to help Flybe as well as them is to be the kind of employer people want to stay with rather than escape from.
Frankly few managers have the imagination or leadership qualities to do it. They understand stick but not carrot.
It's a free country & pilots can walk if they want ( it's not desertion) - and usually do - because they are in deamand, Not everyone is so lucky.