Mister Angry, I think that you have misconstrued my various posts. I am not sure why you think that I would have been better off if the company had failed.
I would imagine that a ground person at Luton ,and I know a lot of them personally, could have walked straight into another job with the orange brigade for probably the same salary. Some members of the crew training and rostering departments have done just this. I doubt that many members of the ground staff have lost 45% of their salary and almost half of their expected pension, as I have.
My roster has not really changed over the last few years. It is produced by a poor quality computer programme and is subject to constant change, unlike the fixed patterns you probably enjoy.
As part of the restructure the airline has abandoned ad-hoc flying because nobody in the back offices of Luton can get it right.The airline has only been doing them for 47 years but we still cock them up and lose money.
For example our Flight Ops Technical group only work office hours and refuse to answer the phone during lunchtimes. It doesn't matter that you are stuck down route needing some abnormal performance figures due to an unserviceability. Please call, back at 2pm is the standard response.
These sort of inefficiencies need correcting.
At the last count almost 25% of the flightdeck contingent have left the business and the remainder have taken draconian pay cuts. I do not believe that the ground staff in Luton have had to face such life changing changes in circumstance.
I am not sure why I am writing this to justify my position but Mister Angry if you can offer me a well paying pilot job in the UK with good terms and conditions I will take you up on your offer. In the meantime please give all the unfortunate employees some empathy as the situation they face has been foisted upon them by some very unscrupulous former owners who have sallied off in their super yacht having royally
their employees.