All credit where it’s due. This has been a hard year for all of us. But there are many debtors to be rewarded, not least some groups of staff. The danger is there’s a long way to go and we still need to see 13200 heads leave through the door. Flight Operations is now taking on pilots again which shows that we’ve run a tight ship. The trouble is the other departments in the airline who will now breath a sigh of relief and open up the throttle on the gravy train once more.
At a recent seminar with our Lord Protector, some suited numpty moaned how he’d trimmed his department back by 20% then 30% then 50% and was now getting by on the staff he had. When Capt Nigel stood up and said ‘If you’re managing now on less staff, what were you doing before?’, answer stunned silence.
Well done Big, could do better.
I’ll take on the opposition anyday. It’s my management I can’t beat!