I must admit Timber, your defence of REX management is somewhat slicker than your predecessors.
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"One wonders where the optimum is would be for REX.....; a 1000 sectors a week? 900 perhaps???"
Straight out of the REX manual for dealing with this crisis. Shrink the business during a period of unprecedented growth, and then have the gall to put a positive spin on it.
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"The passengers are relatively happy because they still get to go where they want to go to, albeit at a different time."
Try selling that to the young mother holding a baby, who's flight has been cancelled and is unable to get home. She is told by distressed dispatch staff that even though she has little money, no contacts in Sydney, and nowhere to stay, she must come back tommorrow or the day after to be rebooked! And then these same dedicated staff have to go home and try to sleep after what they have been forced to do. How well do you sleep at night Timber?
And finally.
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"This would seem to be rather smart yield management, and it is therefore unlikely that the management can be characterised as "stupid", but rather as "utterly ruthless".
"utterly ruthless", I couldn't agree more. But your assertion that this is somehow a positive trait in this mess, is endorseing their treatment of the pilot group and travelling public alike. Now that's "stupid"
We're all entitled to our opinion Timber. But IMHO you are either a mangement stooge, or you have absolutely no idea of the real damage being done to REX.