Poor old Willy is really getting it from all sides these days. Its gotten so bad that he now feels he has to jump into bed with MOL. The reality is you have to take everything that the man says with a grain of salt.
Iberia are p*ssing cash on a daily basis. The big airline alliances are coming at him from all sides at LHR and now his Irish customers are favouring flying East with the likes of Etihad and Emirates.
And then of course don't forget the history where he wasn't allowed to undertake a management buy out of AL and take it private himself and carve it up. He really is still quite bitter about this. Enough of my colleagues run into him on a regular basis when he is back home and you can guarantee he doesn't have anything nice to say about AL. That should be motivation enough that we must be doing alright!
Last edited by MCDU2; 3rd Jun 2013 at 13:31.