BBK, yes I agree respect should be a two way street and it is earned and not given away.
However SRB has earned this respect unlike our pilot management, who have, at best sat and watched this unfold doing nothing to stem the bad feeling within crews and at worst caused the bad feeling due to their own self importance and self promotion. We have a combination of teflon coated good for nothings and turncoats in middle management and downright crooks in top level management. The flight ops department is now run by HR who know nothing about our jobs at the pointy end of a jet, they assume we go to work fly the aircraft and go home, they have never done anything like this job so cannot be expected to know our day to day lives. No, they should not be running flight ops with this background, but they are and until we get rid of this revolving door management style, they are here to stay, as are the CV greasers who screw a few quid out of crews add it to their CV as a saving and clear off to another job selling mobile phones or the next crowd that will fall for the bull!!!! they spread.
The guys teed up to replace this lot are no better either.
re the letter to CC as I said I don't agree with everything SRB has done and I'm fairly sure he is only given one side of any argument.
The letter to pilots was a press release and not intended to do anything other than get the public on his side. It in no way addressed any of the problems being discussed. This is the way he work, get over it. It works for him and he has virtually no input in VS other than the odd front man in publicity stunts and launches.