flyingbudda...I too agree with your sentiments......
...the black ink momentun has been hard won,with many casualties along the way.Its disturbing to think of the number of airline employees that have lost or given up their jobs during the industrys recovery...this is the human cost of airline survival and it is a story that remains to be fully told
Ask any airline CEO what his or her biggest challenge is and you had better hear something related to maintaining customer service and treating employees right....(yeah right!!!!!)
The customers are paying the bills,and the employees are making the sacrifices.The last thing a customer needs is a flight that isnt worth the price,the last thing the employee needs is executives getting bonuses for the "wonderful" jobs theyve done squeezing the last drop out of the system ...airlines where these things happen are the ones that should be out of buisness....and airlines that charge or make you pay for endorsments should also be out of buiness......because training pilots to fly "their" equipment just happens to be the "cost of doing buisness"..
....and for those of you who pay for the endorsement upfront.....you have just cut your own throats....