Super VC-10 said
Why do accountants think it is their job to decide how money is spent.
The answer, in the case of BA, is when the lunatics started running the Asylum. The most important department became not Ops but the Treasury AKA finance or accounts. The bean counters nowadays think that if they say multitasking and cost cutting will not impinge on safety then the peasants flying and maintaining those long pointy things that the SLF pay the accountants loadsofmoney to sit in, will just abide by their rules.
When I started in the business, airlines were run by people who had been at the sharp end and could talk to crew and engineers in the same language. The guys who had cut their teeth flying by the seat of their pants in the Berlin airlift. The new breed of bean counters can just about find their assigned seats.
Last edited by FlightCosting; 1st Jun 2013 at 09:07.