Possible staff reductions in support staff?
"interesting though that management hires 100percent of the pilots. the fault lies not with our stars but within ourselves.
crappy airline pilots...how do they get that way? or is there crap within us all and it just comes to the surface at the wrong time?"
What proportion of management are experienced pilots and what proportion are HR wallahs with their latest aptitude-testing tools and silly exercises to select suitable candidates for a profession about which they know little or nothing?
Once the HR tail started to wag the flight ops dog, then we were on a handcart to hell, and the sooner these wastrels are sent back to the office to look after prospective beancounters and IT geeks and the rest of the SUPPORT staff and kept out of selection for a very specific and scientific job such as flying, the better it will be for flight-ops?
Do brain surgeons and other highly skilled/qualified professionals also have to jump through these silly time-wasting and talent-wasting hoops?