binsleepen are you for real? I don't see AF, LH or KLM doing roadshows
Sometimes you need to see the forest for the trees! A look at both Lufthansa's and Air France/KLM's current balance sheet, drastic cost cutting and future aircraft order book should tell you a lot about why they are NOT doing 'roadshows'.
A little rumour is going around that a bunch of managers were off to SEA to have a chat with Boeing about a future order of a large twin jet. Wonder which one that might be? Willie Walsh has stated in the past that IAG will no longer be a launch airline. A policy that has borne fruit after the messes that were the A380 and the 787. He also intimated that the order of 16 A350-1000's was a 'stop gap' measure.
A fair bit of smoke and mirrors from the management has resulted in, yet again, a lack of flight crew for this summer. The company wants to expand but is currently struggling to cover the summer flying programme. The source of DEP's is being trolled through, there are few, if any ex-Mil guys coming through and the FPP programme is, currently, choc-a-bloc.
Retirements are starting up again, fleets are expanding and the company is pushing to find people to join. Is it really only and all about T's & C's?
Yes we are all working harder, yes EASA is going to throw the whole mix back in the melting pot but I for one welcome recruitment if it reduces CAP.
All IMHO of course.
