Ex FSO Griffo & SDD (a number of posts back) have the right viewpoint on this issue.... This problem has been over 15 years in the making.
Well done Dick, you have done good work in saving the FW service
(this time). However the analogy is that of a farmer taking the lamb to the abattoir, only to give it a reprieve just before the knife hits the throat.
If only there were a better base from which to provide a truly cost-effective FS service, together with a Pprune to spread the word (as in this sort of thread) , back in '91 things might have panned out differently. As it was then, nothing could stop the media circus that is Dick from driving headlong into the start of what we see today.
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Dick, The affordable safety snowball that you threw over 15 years ago has grown into an avalanche, blanketing all in it's path.
Nothing is going to change history, but sometimes we need to look back in order to make sense of current events. It may not be your fault the whole cost reduction strategy is so flawed today, but yours is the point it started at.