Those who were fooled about a fight for survival must be having kittens now but only time will tell
Er Why?
Those who didn't see the airline industry and ,infact, the entire economy, suffer the worst recession for years must have had their eyes shut and have been living in a bubble!!! Speak to anyone outside and inside of the airline industry and they will tell you of the struggle it has been.
Now we're faced with rising oil prices, increasing competition (who have money to throw at their products and services), rising taxes, civil unrest. All which directly affect the airline industry.
Only the people who
saw the financial accounts of BA ( of which BASSA refused!!) can confidently say what state the company were in. Did you see them WSW? Or are you just believing everything BASSA tell you?
The fact is if we, as a community, were to stay on the outdated working practices, T & Cs and agreements that we have now then the company would slip way behind the competition. As a company we would have little money to invest in our product and aircraft. There would be no return to our shareholders and investors and slowly we would ebb away into non-existence.
The world is changing. The airline is changing (in every department). Surely WSW, you can see that ,to remain competitive, change has to happen and that it is sometimes hard to accept. Do you honestly believe we can stay the way we are, in this climate, and succeed as an airline?