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Old 15th Aug 2007, 11:20
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mikehammer
 
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Charterguy, I know that all the previous "employees" are doing just that, getting on with their lives, nobody just sits around and waits for life to happen, we all have to pay the rent! This thread happened to start after all had given up on Unique Air anyway, at first we waited for the investment, then we hoped, then we did everything we could to help from working in the office to working nights on call, and footing our own accommodation bills out of, well, no pay whatsoever. I think the thread was initially started by someone who was thinking of applying for a job. Then there was a deluge from those who have been there and suffered what it does, temporarily, to your life.

I think the reason everyone added to this thread was mainly to warn others about this company. Perhaps you are right, and it has now achieved that. However I think there are still people who look at and subscribe to this site, not all of whom worked at Unique Air, and who are still interested in what MD and his brethren are up to.

He still seems to think he'll get an AOC and become an operator, yet he's been chucked out of his office, had his aircraft blocked in, and now needs to sell it. Despite this the danger is that he'll still think he needs crew, and he knows how to exploit people in this respect. I guess this thread says, above all else: "Warning".

One of the other reasons it keeps going is that MD himself keeps sending private messages to his previous staff, some of which could be construed as threatening. He doesn't seem able to accept that what he did was wrong, and seems to think we have somehow stabbed him in the back, although I fail to see his logic there, similarly I fail to see my wages anywhere! Actually I think that he and his so called partner are quite happy that they shafted us, I think they derived satisfaction from it, and I am quite sure he is able to laugh about how we were stitched up. Most of us have shrugged our shoulders, and, as you suggest, moved on. Nobody believes his lies any more, many of which have been shared here.

Inevitably, however, as there are fewer and fewer things to say about Unique Air, and as most have now had their say, this thread will slip from view in the normal way.

It pleases me that so many have kindly contributed words of support, and that a fiasco such as Unique Air still generates such interest, astonishment and condemnation.

Finally, I suppose if it really bothers you, there is no real need for you to read it, just don't click the link and move on to another topic.
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