......................Why not?
Don't listen to NSF! He's got his head so far up management's you-know-what, that he tends to look at things from a rather brown, or should I say orange, perspective.
Could it be that management (i.e. NSF's puppet masters) are slowly getting nervous about 2011 crewing levels now that more and more people are openly
disagreeing with NSF's eternal love for EZY, and are starting to look elsewhere? If it turns out to be true that lot's of people will vote with their feet and take off for Emirates or Etihad in the near future, then perhaps the foundations for another summer of madness will be in place for 2011?
While I do agree with NSF that most Middle Eastern airlines are probably no real alternative to improving one's life (I wouldn't touch EK or EY with a 10' barge pole) it is utter nonsense that leaving to an airline outside the UK is like crossing a point of no return. It's just scaremongering...
p.s. for anyone wanting to join on a fixed roster: after 2010 the thin edge of the wedge is firmly in place for flexible rostering (thanks in part to those naive traitors who sold their soul to the devil!) so count on the fixed roster pattern to disappear within a few years or so!
p.p.s. Joining as an experienced F/O? Forget it! Why pay an experienced F/O bananas if you can pay a cadet peanuts?
