But do you really want 30 years of loco workload?
The funny thing is I work for a lo-co and my mates at BA (SH and LH) and Virgin fly more hours than I do.
I probably fly more
sectors than them....
It is a myth that lo-co pilots fly more than anyone else.
The few airlines where pilots have been flying substantially less than this will not exist in 30 years so one way or another, every pilot (except perhaps some VIP/VVIP corporate pilots) ought to prepare themselves to fly more than they did 5 or 10 years ago whatever or whoever they work for...
I believe the exact converse of
acbus1 in the sense that I don't believe SMB will either sell or be forced to sell his airline in the near future.
Things are just getting interesting again for bmi.
That said second guessing the strategic aims of bmi management is a bit like trying to predict the behaviour of liquid helium.