The industry I'd on its a**e and going downhill fast.
Yeah, right.
EJ has just made yet another annual record profit of several hundred Million pounds, yields are ever on the up, the "other lot" are in much the same shape. EJ's share price has, what? Trebled? Quadrupled in 2 yrs and they're on the brink of the FTSE 100. Directors are getting yet more multi-squillion bonuses. managers mere millions.
Pilots are getting screwed blind with below inflation "rises" because the company "cant afford more".
FOs are being screwed for inflated price training to buy a job that pays peanuts for years, jobs are being "created" by the hundred on paper but arent there when you look for the vacancies a new job necessarily produces...
The industry is on its arse all right because its sh!tting all over the people who do the work. Its going downhill fast in the nastiest race to the bottom the commercial world has seen in decades.
But not in the way the quotes were meant. Its a roaring runaway goldmine success for those with their fingers far enough in (ie up our) pie...