Mainline continues to recruit??? I'm in mainline. That's news to me. Must've just been something dramatic change in the last 24 hrs.
I've been of the opinion for a long while now that Koshie, as harmless as he comes across, grossly oversimplifies things and as a former economics reporter, is stuck heavily in that "beancounter" mindset.
Even if one of these cheap Asian mobs prangs a plane, Koshie will probably still not see what the problem is. In a recent incident a jumpseating QF bean-counter was told to leave the flight deck after stating that with the savings they had instituted they'd have no problems absorbing the cost of a fatal accident. This is the reality of what we're dealing with.