Well I actually sign off the loadsheets and fly the schedules.
Aircraft are being parked up all day long doing nothing. Loads aren't great. Look at the BRS apron on a Tuesday and you'll see aircraft with cobwebs on them.
Alex you can call me the sage of bugger-all until you are blue in the face mate. Because I offered my opinions, which proved absolutely correct, months and years ahead of others. In the teeth of dissent and ridicule. Those Wannabes that took note have benefitted. That is the bottom line.
I did selectively cut and paste (is there any other way?). The relevant point is that the material has proved correct. The financial 'experts' I quoted were the experts that were correct. My opinion is not fact and no amount of confident assertion by me can change that. Wannabes are not looking for fact. They seek informed opinion. Opinion free from being rooted in the flight training industry. Opinion based on decades of experience in the industry. My opinion was freely offered on a public discussion forum and you're contention about it having been right or wrong is merely failure to concede you were on the wrong side of the debate. There was a house price crash and there was a recession.
If you want to confine the debate to UK low cost airlines and ignore the wider Wannabe market that is fine. Lets start with the prospects of BMIBaby, the profitability of Globespan and the the precarious reliance on mail contracts of Jet2.
Air Europe and Dan Air went bust AFTER the recession.
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