£10 is an insult. I would far rather have had a card saying thanks, but we can't afford any more. That would have been fine. If you think that is an acceptable practice, then I suggest you get some time in a real company or even do some management training, you'll soon find out that "gestures" like that are totally counter productive
The streamline guy's were quite rightly p*ssed off with how they were treated. Emerald managed to turn a profitable and relatively happy little company into oblivion in less than 3 years.
They also didn't like the fact that they were blamed for the woes of the company which was odd. They came from a stable company, that worked them far harder than Emerald ever did, but there was some respect both ways.
The takeover of streamline was a total botch job and there is no way the crews could be blamed for that. They just suffered for it. It wasn't just the crews though, I have never seen engineers treated as poorly. They tried their best, but were treated like dirt and when that happens of course people get demoralised and get "chips on their shoulders".
The demise of Emerald can be put down very easily to the decisions made to buy manky old ATP's to try and save money. Anyone who's been in flying for more than 5 minutes and has a modicum of commonsense could have told you that decision was going to be a disaster.
From there it was a catalogue of idiotic decisions and bad crisis management that put the company out of business.
Only one or maybe two people can be held responsible for those and their initials were MOB and AJ. As the sign says "the buck stops here" and unfortnately for the crews and other staff, it stopped at someone without the ability to sort it.
I have no issue with any of the 748 crews they worked as hard as anyone to try and keep the show on the road, but sometimes I do feel that a culture of letting thing slide had built up over the years and when the streamline crews turned up and were being asked to do the same, that's when they got fed up.
They simply weren't prepared to bend or break rules to get things done in the same way, which in my eyes was exactly right. Flying can be dangerous and some of the things I saw going on were outrageous and totally unacceptable.
I wasn't prepared to put up with it and nor should anyone else have been.