I think MB's attitude to his pilot workforce is well known and I felt I was treated as a necessary evil, certainly I felt that in the 1970s until the mid 1980s. The words overpaid and premadonas spring to mind. Cabin crew could be recruited from the local Woolsworth counter store in Ashby.
Yes, I agree with totally and entirely with your last remark. Spot on!
I was trying to show the two sides of a person. A lot of people have been deeply affected by the way the airline has been run by a management model that appeared to have it's origins in Loughborough's town square market.
I strongly feel that MB should match the proposed LH "donation" of £84m. After all he helped make this mess and should pay part of the price. He has not been exactly coy about how much he carried off int the sunset. Was it about £250m? How much of that can you actually enjoy spending in your declining years, £8m a year?
Perhaps write it off against tax with a bit of creative accounting?
Last edited by MaximumPete; 20th Apr 2012 at 13:48.