Mike: Well said.
I've always enjoyed the spirit of co-operation there has been in the field and espescially in the air between crews from AA, Rossair, Balmoral, King Air Services, Airserv, Zimex and all the rest, and the general feeling that management could mess with each other and that was a seperate and irrelevant issue on a daily basis.
Information has been shared, spares have been swapped or transported as a matter of course and other assistance provided over the years between crews who are each other competitors. This thread, whether or not it has any merits, is potentially very damaging to that spirit and it irks me as well to see crew snapping at each other.
We might work for different companys, but I consider the other contract guys as much closer colleagues than airline crew who I know socially. And I would like to keep it that way. Yeah, its tough that some people are out of a job for a while, but as Oscar Yankee pointed out, the shoe was on the other foot twelve months ago, and the Danes didn't scream about that.
The Balmoral crews in Afghanistan have done a great job over the last year, and I have no doubt that they will be somewhere else doing a great job before long. I just hope for them its a place with a better climate than this frozen hellhole- they deserve it
