Commercial VS Non Commercial
Guys let us grow up!
Air Serv is a money maker & always has been. It has built one of the largest Aviation Companies in Africa N
....k with the US Governments blank check book and the Tsunami.
On ALL of its contracts it managed to screw staff out of a decent wage and yet still charge about 40 – 60 % more for Caravans / 200’s and Twotters, yet they don’t make money! My heart bleeds, off course they make money, but some idiots at the “Home Office” have to be paid, fed and pansied along.
When NGO’s and the UN woke up to the fact that Air Serv cannot financially give them a fair deal they left them behind and are using exclusive private contractors for their World Wide Operations such as Qwila, NAC, Naturelink, Executive Turbine & Solenta etc.
The facts are:
Air Serv has always been “hiding” behind the Bible and do good words like “capacity building”, “coaxial existences” “strategic alliances” “next levels” and all the mumbo jumbo that is designed to flatter idiots with a Grade 1 in Human Sciences and pss bank managers off that lend them money.
Air Serv wanted to run with the “big boys” that learnt the hard way at Rossair, honed their teeth flying angry African Skies with Ppot minded NGO’s & UN Workers & then they thought “easy money” & built the largest hangar at Entebbe and 12 years later it only has one C130 tire in the middle of the floor (If Safair is still helping them out with the rent)
What Air Serv should do to survive is:
1. Like a bunch of H..mos they should “come out of the closet” and tell the world who & what they are & they are one simple thing: An Aviation Company Period. Pot bellied African Kids that are starving with snotty little noses might make some old woman open her purse for $10 but the real money is the real contracts and if your invoice is 40 – 60% more than private contractors even the dumbest NGO won’t hire you. It’s about one simple thing, it’s called MONEY.
2. They should get a manager in with a mandate and a thing called “big brass blls” & make Entebbe (The private Company) plain & simply PROFITABLE.
3. They must slash & burn the “Home Office” & that should be easy because VA where they are is a right to work state, so they can sack all the idiots one bright morning, even before they scoff the nice smelling coffee!
4. They should hire good pilots (They always had good ones & I think of names such as Don C, Bill K, Steve M, Michael V, Bob R and do a simple thing and that is PAY THEM MONEY, not p...ss ....as allowances for dedicated professionals that they are.
5. They must get out of bed with the company they built in Pretoria.
6. All the board members with “esoterically aligned” stars must be fired.
They must go back and see who managed well & get those guys back and give them the tools to make them competitive.
USAID the blank check provider, NGO’s and the UN has become to wise, and whether you fly “The Oil Boys” in Algeria / Libya or some “victim of war or famine,” it still cost exactly the same amount of money to crank over a PT 61 & when private contractors against all odds can get it right then ASI should do the same.
Once they know that they are competitive and can produce an organization with a great brotherhood and a good fraternity, then only can they hold their heads high and say boys here we are, we won’t wail like babies and blame other things if we don’t get the work, only the sharpness of our pencil, therefore I trust that whoever the new CJ replacement CEO is will have the savvy, balls and rolled up sleeves required to nurture a sick pup back to health. Because one more round of failed Missionaries, Potato Sheriffs and Lawyers in walnut paneled offices will break the bank.
My two bits worth & welcome to the real world!