It looks like these two have mangaged to climb in the popularity polls in a record time!
They must be the two most hated people in this airline at the moment, thanks to their Low Cost British mentality, the self enrichments etc!
Its always the same:
1) Dont do to others what you wont like yourself (e.g. dont give yourself a CCQ while blocking all other pilots on their fleets)
2) False motives ( motivation driven by perely personal goals) will always become apparent after a while!
3) Comunicate, comunicate, comunicate,....
These two are the living proof, once more, that in most cases pilots make very bad managers! SS and H.M are the exception to the rule!
Mr CEO, maybe you should start looking at the hidden treasures withing your flt ops dept if you want a good pilot manager! We have many people here with a lot of previous experience willing to do the job!
Create a management structure like EK or EY, hey we copied everything else from them as well/might as well copy their management strategy(but please leave the Nigels out of it this time), which is based on professionalism and not on seniority and greed and we might be of to a good start!
Maybe you could even restart the management training programme for flight ops!(remember the one which exists for all other departments but not for ours. It was there 5 years ago but was abandoned too soon) Start working now on the managers for the future! And let this management come from within!
But bringing in self made profiteers, people who have no trust whatsoever to count on from the troops behind them, will get you nowhere!
And if you want to bring in people from the outside to do the job, at least have the decency to hire REAL professionals and not wannabees like BW and IM who, lets face it, have less flying experience than the avarage FO in this airline!
Hire an aviation professional, like what EY did when they attracted J.H.! Ok, drastic changes will be needed and people like that will not tolerate interference from the 7th and 9th floor on like what we see nowadays, but at least this airline will start going somewhere!
And it will cost you money, lots of money! And ego cutbacks, as these people will step in the spotlight next to you!
But QR will get somewhere! EY tripples its pax carried this summer compared to last year! THATS WHAT I CALL A RESULT!
(bribing SKYTRAX year after year will not do the trick forever,we all know that)
If not done, this airline will go down, and most probably it will go down in FLAMES!
Last edited by shneidertrophy; 1st Nov 2008 at 11:01.