Just when i thought that the idiocy of these people must have limits they show it doesn't.
Note to BASSA. HKG was 3 747s its now 2 747s and a 777, thats a cut. And whichever route decisions BA make they'll still be significantly less aircraft in the fleet this winter than last. (8 747s, 8 757s, couple of 767s offset by 2 new 318s and 4 777s). Some cursory attempt at research may bear dividends.
GLOBAL RECESSION OR (MR WALSHS) GLOBAL EXPANSION?
Jul 5th, 2009 by admin
You will not have missed all the media and press furore surrounding awful times that the aviation industry is experiencing. This sentiment is being led mainly by our own CEO, Willy Walsh, who seems to be doing his level best to talk our airline out of existence as soon as possible.
He has gone on record many times over the last few weeks, reporting the dire state that BA is in, with profits plummeting, empty aircraft and the need for staff to accept ever harsher cuts.
He even went as far as to say that the industry wont recover until 2017 when every other analyst has stated that the recession has already bottomed out and the signs of a slow recovery are beginning to show.
To add weight to this mood of doom and gloom, Mr. Broughton, our chairman, was recently interviewed by Sky News and continued with the line that we are experiencing extremely difficult trading conditions and any recovery is likely to take longer than initially envisaged." However, on ESS today it was also reported that the winter schedule is to actually also be increased as a response to customer demand - we will increase the number of flights from Heathrow to Warsaw and Istanbul from two to three flights a day.
On Worldwide we have recently be told that a new route to Las Vegas is starting in a few months, daily! This is as well as the HKG capacity being increased by adding an additional 777. BA will also increase the number of flights from Heathrow to Rome from five to six a day.
Mr. Walsh said this is the worst trading climate that BA has ever experienced, worse than 911 or the Gulf War. Yet we are still going ahead with the new route to JFK from City Airport?
Only last week, extra flights were also announced, which included additional services from Gatwick to Bermuda (from five to six a week), Barbados (from nine to ten a week) and St Lucia and Port of Spain (from three to five a week), plus flights from Heathrow to Barcelona increasing from five to seven a day and Prague from three to four a day.
Its difficult to judge which of his approaches is the more truthful but what is obvious is that he has got it woefully wrong in talking down our airline to anyone who would listen, solely to create the right atmosphere to push through draconian cuts upon his own staff.
As a CEO he appears oblivious and has seemingly scant regard to the disastrous impact that his statements have had on our advance bookings, as people lose confidence in British Airways. Never mind the fact that the disastrous fuel price fixing, resulting heavy fines and poorly judged fuel price hedging all happened on his watch.
We at the bottom are now being asked to pick up the tab for the mistakes of those at the top.
These errors of judgment alone would make the current round of employees cost cuts unnecessary.
If he were a football manager, he would have been sacked long ago. Its akin to taking Manchester United into non-league football and then attempting to blame the pitch, weather, groundsman, team coach driver, tea ladies and/or the fans.
Read the tabloid sports pages Mr. Walsh and see where the blame normally resides when a team is not doing well...
...The Manager.