Private Aviation.... the moral dilemma!
It would be totaly hypocritical to start trying to take the moral high ground. All of us who fly private aircraft for more than a few years will have taken our thirty pieces of silver....and sold our souls. we are all Judases to an extent. We have to be to do this job.
Routine makes one imune to the obscenity of daily throwing away hundreds if not thousands of pounds worth of the very finest food and drink that money can buy....excessively uploaded just in case our well sated charges might fancy something a bit more...
We turn a blind eye to the excesses of Z list celebrities who thanks to Simon Cowel and X factor have graduated from sleeping under arches to flying private jets in a matter of weeks and havent the first clue how to handle their elevation to gods by vacuous mass hysteria.
We dance to the tune of our billionaires who expect us to turn a blind eye to their affairs and omit to mention the "last business trip" next time we fly their wives to get their hair or nails done in Moscow ( no one good enough in London apparently) .
Mrs is taking the Global to LA next week on her own to do a little shopping because she is bored.
If all this was private money it would be bad enough but it is not. Many of these excesses are funded by PLC companies with public shareholders....upon whom we rely for dividends in our pension funds. The last example I have quoted of bored Mrs Fat Bum's shopping trip to LA is on an aircraft that is paid for by a London FTSE 250 company which has not paid a dividend for years and whose share price is heading for ever relentlessly down...currently fifty percent below its level two years ago. Due to the clevernesses of accountants and lawyers this running sewer depleting precious funds at the whim of the CEO and his family is so concealed that no one seems any the wiser.....least of all Its over paid auditors ( maybe there is a clue there)
This is a squalid industry.....so how do you work in it with a clean conscience? Maybe you cant.
Discuss!!!