Originally Posted by Leo Hairy-Camel
the more tragic thing is that a man of his honesty and decency works an organisation that conceives of its relations with him so thinly, that his commitment to it is in no way matched by their commitment to him.
Spot on, old sport! So to avoid the unnecessary tragedy, the people working for employer treating them like excrementa, should be of low moral standards themselves and ready to stab their employer in the back at the first opportunity.
The strategy used by Brookfield/Ryanair, and seemingly emulated by EasyJet/CTC, is a valid one (for the MGT) provided that a) crisis is going to deepen, everything goes to hell, anyway and it's time to grab as much as you can before everything collapses, or b) crisis will become permanent and therefore used as a stick to discipline the workforce. If upturn ever comes, some airlines will find out that pilotless transport aeroplane hasn't been certified, let alone made yet. Not to their top management chagrin, of course. Their retirement provisions are quite raid-proof and able to last them for a couple of centuries or so.
Last weekend's "Lunch with the FT" column was very interesting, to say the least.
Anyway, now that you mention the "Eastern European cheap pilots menace", do you have any idea how many pilots are waiting behind the rusty iron curtain to be unleashed upon flightdeck jobs in Western Europe? I'm asking because seemingly Roland Berger is quite clueless about it and anyone following their advice is bound to get hurt.