Here's what was written earlier today regarding the forum:
It's not running,
I simply fired it up and into view when a thread klcked off saying there should be one.
Interest dies instantly when we do that with companies sustaining a significant level of internal paranoia. Emirates suffers the same problem.
Regards
Rob PPRuNe Admin
So, the forum is functioning and has worked in the past but people were persuaded to go over to the AOA forum many years ago. We don't regard that as a failure because associations such as the AOA and Balpa were forced by the popularity of PPRuNe to set up forums for their members. Back in the summer of 1995 the whole concept was offered to Balpa but Danny and I were advised it could never work - we take great satisfaction having so many companies and associations follow suit after our total failure to engage and attract professional pilots
Entirely up to you guys if you want to staff it, moderate it and grant access. However, the truth is that our experience shows the level of internal disharmony within a company can reach a point where trust is so totally absent a private forum never reaches anywhere near a functioning number of writers. This is especially so when there is a familiar and well used public forum like this.
Rob