What a pathetic way to run an airline! So, all the 162 Classic pilots that were to be or have been laid off thanks to the Knee-jerk reaction by Virgin management may be taken on again only months later!According to a friend of mine, Virgin are paying big bucks to get their Classic Captains to work on days off, even though many of them are holding redundancy notices in one hand and the phone in the other with Crewing begging them to work in the other. I appreciate that no-one could have anticipated the speedy recovery after the events of Sept. 11th, but many of those pilots have had a lousy Christmas thanks to the inept VS management.And as always, who gets sc@wed? The pilots and their families, thats who!!!