LHC, you are a purveyor of untruths.
Monarch's major shareholder and co-founder is a very nice Swiss gentleman, Mr Mantegazza, whose father started Cosmos Tours with a single ferry boat on Lake Lugano. Last time I looked, that is a long way from Sicily, but hey, urban myths are meant to be believed by the gullible, and you seem to fit that category admirably.
Before you rant, get your facts straight.
To look at the amount of money put in your bank every month, which if you are a Brookfield contractor on euro pay, will be quite substantial in a good month, sometimes clouds ones ability to see the wood for the trees.
Most of the airlines with reasonably good industrial relations with their employees, Monarch being one of them, provide such diverse and useful benefits such as Loss Of Licence Insurance, Death in Service payment, pensions, Interline, (that's where you get to travel on other airlines at a very reduced rate (not like the RYR, fly with us but it's cheaper to buy a ticket on-line type of interline)) subsidised health insurance and a degree of respect and dignity which is worth more than LHC will ever understand.
Still, if he's happy to contunue to work for the one single airline that is widely regarded as the pariah of the European airline industry, good for him.
I just hope that not too many of his fellow pilots are of such a short sighted and narrow minded ilk.
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