Actually, no Guppy, those "solutions" don't solve any of the problems - they just emphasise the attitude I come up against time and time again. Charter - good plan, only when I asked about a charter I was told "that's not a charter operation, that's a scheduled service" (21 sectors/day)
Go to an airport and get on a flight? OK, which airport? I have to travel 200km to get a flight to Dublin (Mon & Fri, summer schedule only, but thanks all the same, Michael), 350km to get a flight to Germany - well it's only another 250km to the border after that. Train? OK, the station's only 7km from here, but I haven't seen Cork on the departure board lately.
The second last time I took a flight - Dublin to Kent, my journey was made up of travel by car-walk (PierD)-plane-bus-train-walk to get to my meeting. 8 hours on the move, 1h15 in the air - that's just crazy when there was an airport only 20km from where I was trying to get to.
As for managing people to death - that's exactly what I see happening, and your comments exemplify the division between "management" and "the workers". I do a full day's work, getting my hands dirty, trying not to kill myself and those around me, meeting the perfumed people and the stinky ones; when the working day is over, then it's time to do "management".
Anyhow, the point of this thread (apart from trying to find someone who can explain why I should be allowed write my own manual of operations instead) is the hope that it will yield some helpful info like Davidsoffice has given. Thanks.
