Neo,
agreed there was unpleasantness 10 years ago, but surely the topic starter is on about 'best airline to work for now', not what it was 10 years ago? I too have been lead to believe by much more senior colleagues who were around at the time that no compulsory redundancies took place 10 years ago? I understood that early retirement and enhanced voluntary redundancy were offered? Having said that it may well have been similar to what happened at jmc late last year; no compulsory redundancies but plenty of the 'vulnerables' at the bottom of the seniority list feeling pushed into taking the enhanced voluntary before the inevitable...............
PP