...the board should have recognised the blokes potential and kept him on, not let him go to Virgin
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Quite simple really. JB is a builder who value adds, joyce is a wrecker who only knows slash & burn.
The board couldn't do it via APA, joyce is their next best opton to achieve the same result.
He has only one thing to lose, his bonus. If he fails to kneecap the pilots and engineers he will not collect his precious bonus. Bonus or not, he will move on, (to the next disaster) and we are left to salvage what's left.