No Arfur, it's not management , it's "staff". That gives them licence to lay into everyone except (God forbid) their own salaries and benefits.
Then, they demonise the pilots amongst the "staff" and turn the "staff" against the pilots. Look at the greedy pilots. Do you know how much they earn? Do you know how little they work? Look at their cushy hotels. Look at their expensive toys. How many houses does he have? He has a plane, and you don't even have a car!
The next step (here's the good one) they do right by the "staff " (after all, "we" all agree that the pilots earn way too much) and they cut pilots salaries. It's only the right thing to do, after all.
Job done. QED. It's not rocket surgery.
PS. We HAVE to stop contributing breathlessly enthusiastic stories of our amazing vacations and beautiful toys to Crews News. When the CEO, CFO, GM, MD, D(people) and others start showing US photos of THEIR homes on the Peak, chauffeur driven BMW's, ski vacations to Suites de la Potiniere and ICAO junkets, I'll show them what I did. Crews News is a COMPANY PUBLICATION. It's read by ALL the staff. Whilst it might make 1000 pilots happy, it only generates feelings of extreme jealousy amongst 27000 COMPANY employees and thousands of others outside CX. It's propaganda people, nothing more, nothing less.
Last edited by Cpt. Underpants; 2nd December 2014 at 02:45.
Reason: Letting off steam