How does HKE escape the vitriol?
Has there ever been so much ire on one web site in the history of PPRUNE aimed at both management AND the regulator? Clearly to an outside observer on the evidence portrayed the airline appears a managerial disaster and fit only for one's mother in law to travel on. However I thought the standard of regulatory over-sight was pretty good?
Is there really that much difference between HKE and HKA? Both obviously controlled by HNA and supposedly only the minor shareholding difference standing between the two organisations becoming one happy (AOC) family? Yet HKE seem to escape unscathed - they must be a much better outfit.
Certainly in their independent days HKE seemed better run than the old CR, from the ashes of which HKA arose more like a serpent than a phoenix. However both were commercial basket cases and seem to be still so. At the end of the day only commercial success will see jobs created. Oasis was apparently a very happy place to fail in!
It is interesting that this blog seems fixated on former Singaporean AHK Flt Ops Managers. They are third division when it comes to influence with HNA and dictating what happens to the airline although they obviously have a big impact on the pilots. However total silence on the senior management recently imported who are supposedly managing the two airlines. Are they the saviours they portray themselves as? (Incidentally, I know of no Flt Ops management that could sack 14 pilots without endorsement from the board - even CX DFO and the 49ers!)
A few months down the line and a few more receiverships could make this hiring bonanza disappear might quickly. The "Demise" in the title of this thread seems more illusionary than real!