Been a long time since I posted here, since I left the industry a while back.
But I do have a family interest in this particular matter, and whilst I fully appreciate that this forum is principally for the flightdeck, please do spare a thought for what you might generally term "admin", i.e. sales, commercial, accounts, staff travel etc etc, who will, without a doubt, be losing their jobs in the coming months.
The lack of information coming from within GB is a real concern to them, because their jobs disappear entirely, they won't be moving across to Easyjet, and they are getting into the thumb twiddling stage as all the planning for post-March has stopped from the GB perspective.
So, a question that some of the EZY people might be able to shed some light on: what is their policy on redundancies? My personal belief is that the newly extremely rich Bland Group have a responsibility to these people, but if they opt out of that, then they could well be faced with statutory redundancy from the moment the takeover is completed, which is a pretty harsh return on them. Naturally, they'd like to know what precedents might apply, because few of them want to be in the position of being out of a job, with limited time to get a new one, and a small cheque to try to tide them over.
Obviously, these are questions that the GB senior management could, and bloody well should be finding out for them, but thus far, nothing has come back to them.