A fascinating range of views. What most, but not all, contributors are missing here is that the sacking of Pablo Mason had little or nothing to do with letting Robbie Savage into the cockpit in contravention of the rules. You can argue all day about whether or not the breach of SOPs was a sackable offence - the airline really did not care. All they cared about was getting rid of Pablo - an opportunity presented itself, they took it and the rest, as they say, is history. Love him or hate him, Pablo has been an unusually controversial figure throughout his whole career - in my time at Laarbruch he was a legend!
I am not going to publicly abuse Pablo here or go into unwholesome specifics, but it would not be betraying state secrets to say his airline were seriously displeased with Pablo and wanted him gone yesterday. He gave them an opportunity to get rid of him and they grabbed it with outstretched hands. There is a separate debate as to whether that view was justifed or not, but that is what happened nonetheless.