Pappa 2 Charlie – excellent post and good reply from TRE.
I disagree with several of your points but, the main one I will address is this one.
3. Questions have been raised about the current RE management in the past… but ultimately the actual question is "What would YOU do different?" It's all well and good complaining about the management ……
Well here is what I would do differently. The company is ridiculously overstaffed and in completely the wrong areas. The vast majority of its employees are not revenue generating – they hold contrived posts that have been set up to make them think that they contribute to the bottom line by interfering with the staff that actually do the work.
Arann has a managerial infrastructure that some of the medium sized airlines would be proud of. Its HQ is just about one third the size of that of Ryanair. Think about that for a moment. Aer Arann’s head office is just about one third the size of Europes largest airline which is also probably the largest LowCo in the world. Need I say more – Arann has 12, I say again, 12 aircraft. (NFC in Weston has 25 – and I know, I know they are in just as poor a condition!!).
So, the question was, What would I do differently. The first thing I would do is to get rid of its Marquee headoffice and most of its staff. Arann should be run from a double decker portacabin with a handful of people doing a multiple of the post holder functions. I would combine many of the the non revenue generating departments and I would really really look after the staff that are generating the day to day revenue.
Oh - and finally I would ask what P O’C has done with the tens of millions of pounds that his company received over the last ten years.