Sal-e,
It's good someone at least shows this management some trust and provides a slightly different opinion on this forum. Not that I agree with you but at least it provides a forum for debate.
I read your comments carefully but you failed to mention that this management was not acting this way from the start. They in fact came in "guns blazing" and attacked the pilots and cabin crew with threats of sackings (see GDN and their own announcements of 1500 expats to be sacked) when in reality the only real productive staff members in this airline are the crew (sorry Icarus, you too mate and a few others).
When the other 3 major airlines in the region all pitched up and started taking names down, Mr Naf and Co changed their tune. Mr Kooheji even publically contradicted himself as never saying 1500 crew would be sacked.
Now my question is how can you trust such management when they change their tune at the drop of a hat? How do you know that in 10-12 months as officially quoted by Naf on company email they wont sack you?
There obviously is an agenda on the horizon, most likely involving downsizing the airline and cutting costs in order to go public. Now that could be good and then again could be bad. Once this airline goes public it will be run wholy and truly by beancounters.
The good days of GF are over sadly my friend, I say this and it truly saddens me because I have spent several decades in the service of this airline. I have seen the good, the fair the bad and the ugly. I've seen the corruption the abuse the downright greed of those who "managed" this airline for years. Dont dream of magic recoveries to past glories, in today's market it's simply impossible with giants like EK, QR and the up and comming EY. These airlines can have GF for breakfast and still be hungry for brunch.
The present management team were not brought in to do a recovery, they were brought in to do the dirty work to whats comming.