Mach 084,
That was a well written post, and I compliment as well as complement your thoughts.
The money seems to be too little and too late! The much awaited package on Sunday came as a 1 % increment - a refund of the unemployment insurance!!!
Extrapolating from their previous announcements, I would expect an increase in the September, to be effective somewhere in January! If BN wants to send the package to the board for approval next week, then why did he not do it the last week, instead of bragging about it in his newsletter? His intentions are suspect.
GF management will reap the seeds of their procrastination from October when they will have flights cancelled for want of crews. Even now, there are hardly any standbys, and flights get held up for want of a pilot every other day.
The company is running like a headless chicken, which is not just metaphorical - the CEO, VPO/ HOFO and the MFD are 'Acting'; there is no HOGO, HODD, MFS and MOC; the Manager Rostering and Crew Control, CP340, MFOQA and HOFSQA are in their notice period and have no interest left in the company, and some of the remaining managers are on leave for the summer. (While some of the positions will be made obsolete in the new organization system, the plan remains to be seen even after four months of its proposal.)
The woes of the airline are being reflected in the attitude of the staff: one can notice the low morale and the pessimism across the employees, and an increase in the inter-personal skirmishes.
Taking an airplane is a pain – the APU’s seldom work, the Ground Air Conditioning is most inefficient, Engineers are seldom available to fix the airplanes and BAS cannot send GF flights on time!
Try complaining - to whom will you write or phone? Or just crib on PPRUNE?