Most low-time pilots these days are a bunch of spoilt brats.
What happened to the days when one learnt to fly and pursued an aviation career for the love of flying and aviation.
Now all one sees on Pprune and Avcom are pilots bitching and moaning about their companies and their pay. Brand new flight instructors complain about earning R150 per hour, which is between R12,000 and R15,000 a month at a decent flight school. Then student pilots moan about flight school rates being too expensive. Does a flight school owner not have the right to make a profit?
Then we get to an airline such as Airlink. Pilots are hired into what is a stepping stone airline. RF knows that more than 90% of the pilots joining his airline intend moving on to bigger and better when they have the opportunity. Additionally, RF was hit by 9/11 at the worst possible time, and kudos to him for keeping the airline afloat. And for those who begrudge him for having a B200 and a fancy car, that money came from other sources long before Airlink was started. When you join Airlink you know what type of an operation it is so live with it and deal with it until you move on to your next career position. If you think that you can run the operation better than RF then go meet with him and tell him how you would do it - he is always one to listen, even if he may disagree with you.
As for JVJ, that is probably the worst move RF could have made and the sooner he wakes up to that and gives JVJ the boot, the better!!