World Class Provision Of Service
Have any of you travelled on a French or German train recently, and compared it to our so called system, nationalisation can be made to work, the money would not be taken from the tax payer, it would simply be a reallocation of the profits currently provided to share holders into equipment, personell and training, also we currently have massive duplication of resources, at Manchester for example, there are 5 major ground handlers, each one has a seperate ramp department, seperate ops and sepaerate pax servises for each terminal, by combining them you save on massive waste, also equipment, how many de-icing trucks do you need standing around all year doing nothing, well every GHI has to offer a de-icing facility so 5 times the cover, gpu's the same, airstairs, air starts, hi-loaders, baggage belts, push back tugs, to-bars, baggage trucks,ebt's, chocks etc etc, these are all in a poor condition, we could have half the equipment under 1 company that is in good and safe order, and yes 5 times the management could be trimmed in half, thus saving a huge amount of money that can be re-directed into better usage, on top of this, it will be impossible for the airlines to push the price down low, because there will be no alternative than to pay the price set by an independent adjudicator as the correct and reasonable rate for handling, send around the heavies if you like I am not afraid, but I think it's time the subject was raised, due to the abject failiure of free market economics in our industry, an experiment which as the banks have now found out at tremendous cost to the tax payer has failed absolutly.