What a level around here!
What you criticise on the others is your short coming...
To sumarize a bit:
If Swiss is sinking now, this is mainly due to faulty management which said that 26/26 was a correct size...and taking over the jobless Swissair pilots with their Busses and their own-made contract under the pressure of politics.
The new Swiss should have been based under Crossair cost structure, it was one of the prerogative from the politics...
Promesses from the management to have only one pilot corps...
Fair conditions for everybody...
Where are we now:
Size too big for any alliance, size too big for the Swiss market, Zurich overcrowded, luxurious service! for luxurious people! during recession time!!! and with destination excellence!!!
Two pilot corps, on one camp they should be happy, they where jobless, went reemployed and for some of them they even had a payrise, on the other camp, they where doing not so bad, expending, improving contract condition and now are fooled with their own management, by the others, and still work under the same conditions as before. Less salary for same sector flown, less vacation, no bonus, no correct seniority list!!!
Result: two corps of pilots fighting against each others.
( Skypointer, CCP tried several times to approach AP when we where two different company with no answer!) remember...
And "some stupid court ruling" which are part of the legal affair for business are also there because AP did not wanted to talk about this...
Very poor judgement of the situation from the management...
If you start a new brand, would start big and then reduce? NO!
First you start small and then when things look well you expend maybe!
Why did they started so big and full of arrogance?
Because we are facing a Clone of Swissair, it is very trendy nowadays...
Keep it small, friendly and reliable.