I cannot agree with that perspective Doug. The Doomsday scenario you describe was indeed there. Through a fateful combination of greed, wishful thinking and total incompetence we managed to run seriously short of pilots this summer. I believe in the next few weeks heads will roll for that, and rightly so. Nonetheless, given that we had this mess we all needed to do anything we safely could to rescue the situation. I do not apologise to anyone for selling back leave and working into discretion on several occasions recently, partly to help the company and partly to help our customers. And, yes, I gained financially from it, which I have no problems with either. Not a single colleague was disadvantaged by it and it had to be done to sort out the mess. Clearly the undergirding principle had to be safety first, and it always was. It is worth reflecting on the significant damage to our reputation that has occurred this summer - and that is with the enormous efforts of the pilots and cabin crew who put all hands on decks. Had we followed your advice to somehow punish the company, we would have done incalculable damage to easyJet and, by association, ourselves. I do not like any more than you do the
PR disaster of this summer. What I cannot go along with is the almost deliberate desire to create even greater mayhem just because we could. I am in the business of making easyJet successful, because in the end if easyJet goes down the we all go down with it. That is just plain common sense to me.