...you will have to agree that baby was not a new airline start up. Baby was started by all the 737's we had in LHR being re painted and sent to EMA. They didn't have to be bought or found.
I can't let that subject pass without comment. It's important not to forget to mention the human cost, which was the most disgusting aspect of the whole manipulated sham.
It was a case of "Your existing job no longer exists, but you might be accepted (if you say please) for a job which is
exactly the same as your old job, but with a "totally new, totally separate" company, on less pay with worse conditions."
The other "choices", depending upon your job, were redundancy or move to Heathrow.
Nice treatment.
Not.
Observing these goings on from the safety of Heathrow, I was shocked by this treatment and even more shocked by the disinterest shown by colleagues at other bases and lack of resistance fron BALPA and cabin crew union. In fact, some pilots were gleefully crossing more senior baby-bound people off the seniority list! Human nature, eh!
Well, when (not if) the whole mess is taken over, you'd all better start worrying about your jobs. bmi/BMED discussions such as these will pale in comparison.