Of yes almost all airlines do hire well paid consultants to do the job , don't forget Accenture were the consultants for the Air India - Indian Airlines merger , reporting if I am not mistaken , directly to Praful Patel and look what that has brought us. For the record I have worked with a few of those consultant types and let me tell you the only thing they have backing them is the name of the organisation they work for aka Accenture , E and Y and the likes , the fact is we had to teach them the basics and they wrote the report which in a nutshell is simply " bull****" . They simply did not have a qualified aviation professional in the panel. And the senior management of the airlines love it when a big name feeds them ****.I am sure that all these guys , except Tony , will be having the consultants around them. I just hope they will be there when the airline shuts shop too.
