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Old 27th Dec 2007, 12:23
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So in your mind, there is no such thing as a career? If you don't like it leave? People have shown brand loyalty and have through hard work, gained positions of responsibility. That is a 10 year process. It is also 10 years of hearing that there isn't any money.

Are the planes empty? No. That must mean the business model is wrong as almost all other carriers in the UK pay a bit to a great deal more. The Virgin product is not cheap in cost or image. So how the turnover is spent is down to the Directorship and Management alone. This is why the return in profit is where it is. The business is either viable, or it is not. I believe it is, so it is the way it is managed that is the problem.

Keeping staff pay costs at the bottom of the industry gives a short term gain, but leads Virgin to where it is now, in an industrial dispute over pay, with strike action within a couple of weeks. Who knows what that cost will be?
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