Mr Capron your point is a perfectly valid one and is now one of the issues causing BA enormous damage. No one has taken personal responsibility and resigned. Willie Walsh is now clinging to office like a disgraced politician and really should go. Weasel and worthless apologies just antagonise his ex-customers and inflict yet more damage on the brand. Just like a disgraced politician in the end he will have to go and in his heart of hearts I believe he probably knows it. The game is up and he and many of his senior managers have been rumbled as incompetent fools. He was the man at the top taking the big salary and perks. No problem when the company is successful but when you mess up on this scale you need to take responsibility and go. Had Terminal 5 been a wonderful success he would now be basking in all the glory and taking all the credit. Now that it’s a disaster he avoids all responsibility. Doubtless at the end of the year it will still be big financial bonuses all round as BA heads towards its nemeses. At that point they will all head for the lifeboats with their big payoffs and pensions leaving the likes of Michael O’ Leary and others to pick over the remains at the great BA end of the line fire sale. Think it wouldn’t happen? Well just look at the story of another spectacular British disaster GEC/Marconi. Another management team led by NuLabour friend Lord Simpson trashed in 5 years what had been build up over decades into one of Britain’s biggest and most successful companies. Lord Simpson of course later walked out the door with a fortune and for the rest it was redundancies all round. Willie Walsh and Co need to go so BA can make a fresh start and so BA’s customers can see those responsible have been punished. I can’t help wondering that had this disaster happened in Japan to an airline like JAL all of the senior executives would by now have been reassigned to terminal lavatory cleaning duties and picking up litter in the car parks.
N. B. As regards the earlier posts re immigration detainees this situation was in no way the fault of BA. This is a national carrier carrying out the lawful requirements of its own Government in this case the Immigration and Borders Agency. Anyone with a problem really needs to take this up with the Home Office as this is a matter of Government policy. Presumably the people who object to this have no problem with visa overstayers, Illegal entrants, foreign parasites and cheaters remaining in the UK at the taxpayer’s expense. Are would they perhaps rather the Government flew them home in their own personal Learjet courtesy of the public purse? Come on people get real.
Last edited by markrl; 13th Apr 2008 at 17:06.