Trader, what is "competatancy" ? Do you mean, 'competent Nancy' ? Oh no, HE is being investigated by the CID, I am informed !
Joking apart, I am greatly depressed to read all this having left Gf some time ago & joined these forums in response to the Massalama list (many joining my consultancy Recruitment efforts) and the sad news of Rad Gammage. I have been hooked on the pages ever since.
You guys have to realise that Gf was NEVER a proper airline. A pimping service for very high ups & easy prey for the thugs who syphon off huge profits for personal reward. AD has immediately identified just that (amongst other irregularities) and, of course, comes to a full stop. That is where the million a day is going. Cosmetics like Skyfannies, skybeds, rebranding (never succeeded) will not address the real problem. AD came in with cosmetics but was binding them together with other good strategies, But he fell at the really important fence, corruption.
I saw all of this in 2004 but, in the back of the crew bus, was told by my Skipper to be careful what I said. It was all true, he said, but I could go to jail for publicly making my views heard !
Ok. GF is the Alitalia of the Middle East. For many of the same reasons. It is the only commercially focused airline in the Region and that is why it will fail. You cannot compete on a non-level playing field. Other regionals ARE NOT making money but are having money thrown at them by wealthy owners. The Bahrain Government needs to do the same, for a while.
You know, as a young First Officer at Luton in the 70's, GF was THE airline to go to. You could not get in unless you had the type rating or were a Freemason. I was 737 but STILL could not get in. It was fiercely competitive. (gees, I hope that is the right spelling), and now, waching the ship go down & witnessing the Captain jumping off too, is unbearable.
Get a really abrasive, go-ahead, unafraid CEO (not unlike AD, actually,), & you night come out of this. Keep AD but give him full authority. Prosecute the real leeches (but how far up do you go?) & rid the company of the wretched nepotism that STILL cripples the lot of you (HR,Managers, Some Chief Pilots and all the interconnection)............you NIGHT get somewhere. I sadly say, I doubt it.
All very depressing but good luck to the many professional pilots I still know out there who really want to make this work (even IB).
Oh, we just signed up two more off the 767. that for the Massalam list.
All the best, Gentlemen.