cldrvr
Jolly good.
I doubt you would be singing the same tune,
if it was your job on the line.
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Anyone who has been in this business long enough has gone through it. There are very few, if any, large enough operators in Europe that have not seen layoffs.
This is the nature of our business, a plane when things go well is a tool to be used extensively, when the sh!t hits the fan, the plan is just a liability and the beancounters like to see it go when the downturn is upon us.
I was solely commenting on the posters who said that based on his loyalty a job was owed to him/her. Time to wake up and smell the coffee, the health of our industry and job security is directly linked to the health of the economy and specifically to the speciality the principal operates in when talking about smaller operators. A large operator like Netjets has to respond to the wider economy it operates in, when belt get tightened, the plane, shared ownership and charters suffer.