Bung Eyed Bandit. SDO also lost 18, plus 6 more that jumped before being pushed, plus another 30 redeployed, for a total of 54 out of 100 gone. A number have been reinststated at SIO but none that I know of in SDO. As usual SDO has well and truly borne the brunt.
For years SDO has been understaffed. We watched as we lost good people with the licenses we needed, fade away in countless rounds of redundancy.
For years we watched as training was cancelled due to "sufficient license coverage". Yet for years we covered the gaps with overtime and deferrals. We watched as our work was given away to Base and SIO due to "lack of license coverage" and "insufficient manpower".
We watched as they shut down the airline to prove to everyone they should have the right to manage or mismanage the airline as they see fit. And boy have they done an AMAAAAZING job on an AMAAAAZING business. For years we have waited for a reckoning. It is closer now than it has ever been, and not a moment too soon. I for one have had a gut full.
Those going to Base are perhaps the lucky ones. There isn't much left of Good Ship Domestic to cling to, and there are more squalls on the horizon. Any port in a storm.