Situational Ethics
Well, I seemed to have stirred up a hornet's nest of po-faced revisionism.
While I in fact take no actual pleasure from anyone losing their job through an operator shutting down, having been there myself at least six times, I am well short of rending my garments over this.
Since the advent of the susidiary carriers I have NEVER heard a QF pilot speak in complimentary terms of Jet Connect, Jet Star. JetConnect c*nts yes, JetConnect brothers? Not once. So lighten up on the new found comradery. I don't speak for anyone but me, and I'd be more than happy to do it to your face.
The guys that I fly with were all told by Dixon that they'd all be captains in five years. That was about eight years ago. They all have ten plus years in the company, have aspirations and families too, and the now dashed expectations that they'd enjoy a career of the typical trajectory. They were promised that (expressed or implied) first, well before any of the LCC bretheren. So guess who I support?
Twin Beech