35,000?? Have you got a source for this because I'm pretty certain this would be plastered all over the news if that number of people were losing their jobs.
Bit of a personal grumble, but all this chat about the blip in the oil price is affa dull and only very loosely connected to the topic. I have noticed a lot of needless negativity on here and other threads i.e. Flybe reopen their base somehow ends up being spun to be a bit of a downer.