Management quote on Day 1 Q and A session c. Sept 2011:
"...what happened to the hold pool in 2008 will not happen again...."
Hmm. Really? Must have been a spam email I received last week then. The worlds favourite airline does not have the worlds favourite "fair recruiting" policy!
Subsequent efforts by several second timers to be a part of the solution and not the problem were quite abrubtly rebuffed. To the point of feeling like we were a nuisance in fact.
We asked for the empirical evidence of 18 month validity in science fact. No such answer was forthcoming. A number of other carriers, as many will know, do not employ an expiry period because it simply doesnt make sense.
Rant over.