Spot on Bob.
I'd just love to be in 'Commercial' when the call comes through from the 'new charterer' asking for 'something a bit bigger that can bring pax PLUS palletised stuff from over there to over here' and all 'Commercial' can do is whimper 'Nooo, sorry, our only available aircraft is spending 17 hours on the ground in CPT because we don't want to give our crews anymore time off downroute than the bare legal minimum.
Narrow-minded with short memories that are incapable of learning from hard lessons and blinded with tunnel vision...or are they...?
There has been no word that last years PURGATORY will or will not be repeated this winter. I too had the verbal, off the record assurances from the Flt Ops management that last years slip patterns will NOT be repeated.
We shall wait and see.
