Easyjet Hold Pool

[Norman Stanley Fletcher]

si jet - I cannot in any way justify what has happened to those in the hold pool. What I can tell you is that, in my judgement, it is very unlikely that any of those people will be offered jobs any time soon by easyJet. The whole recruitment situation has changed so dramatically, and we now have large numbers of temporary pilots looking for permanent jobs. Quite rightly they will be considered first, and it is only after they have jobs that we will look elsewhere. I am genuninely sorry that you guys have been treated so shabbily, but I nonetheless think that is what will happen.

Claudio - My comments are not to a 'wider audience'. I have no ambitions whatsoever in management, and neither seek their favour or fear their disdain. I am in the fortunate position of having a job I am very content in at easyJet, and if never promoted again would be very happy with where I have got to. I do, however, have some concerns about the attitudes of some both in and out of easyJet to all that is going on. There are a number of pilots working for easyJet who, if they were given a free Ferrari by the company, would have been given one in the wrong colour! All is not perfect at easyJet, but there are some very positive aspects to working here - which I have tried to highlight. There are a lot of pilots on here who would genuinely feel better if easyJet went bankrupt, and that includes some of those working there. It would somehow justify the ridiculous excesses of their opinions. We are indeed in a crewing shambles - I am unashamedly doing everything I can to ensure we run our program over the coming months. That is because I want our customers to come back again and because it is in all of our interests to fly for a successful airline. That is just pure common sense - alas, experience shows that common sense is neither common or evident to most people. I do not like what has happened in that last couple of years any more than anyone else, but I do detect a new reality coming in among our managers. They now know that keeping the pilots and cabin crew on board makes sound business sense - it is just a shame it has taken them so long to find out what any of us could have told them years ago. Whatever the mistakes of the past, I choose to look towards the future. It can be bright if we choose to make it so. I sure want easyJet to recover from the current situation. If ever there was a time to pull together to make easyJet successful, this is it. I would humbly suggest that those who are within would do well to think likewise.