Amazing skill!
One can only marvel at the extraordinary management skill that permits a carrier to totter on the edge of failure when:
[LIST][*]It operates in a jurisdiction where the GDP growth is the highest in the region - itself the highest growing region in the world[*]Where the local businesses depend for their life blood on people being imported into Macau[*]Where the Government totally supports the "flag carrier" and the local regulatory Authority is in its pocket[*]Where the granting of routes is a gift from heaven because of the sub concession system[*]Where there there is no internal competition - if you were management you could not invent such hopeless cases as Viva and Macau Express (if they even exist still)
Now that takes original thought! This cock up will be a business school study at Embrey Riddle in the years to come! Is there another airline anywhere that is so badly run that the fuel price hike only has a peripheral effect because they have so many other inadequacies???
Lies, broken promises, doubts about safety, racism, xenophobia, fights in the cockpit, arcane politics and life in cloud cuckoo land! this one has it all - what a case for proper accountability!
The various Macau threads have been a source of great amusement and interest over the past few years, but that must be cold comfort for the many good people who want it to succeed.