Is This Any Way to Run an Airline?
This ought to be of special interest to all you airline professionals.
From a report of Russian news service RIA Novosti, an audit of Kogalymavia (the corporation operating aircraft under the brand Metrojet), undertaken as part of the accident investigation, has discovered that wages are two months in arrears (выявлена задолженность по заработной плате за 2 месяца).
Incomprehensible as it may seem to those of us from the West, there are numerous precedents for Russians continuing at their jobs during extended periods while their employer is too cash poor to pay them.
We can try to imagine the ramifications for airline operations, of being too broke to pay workers.
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I try to console myself by hoping that gross structural failure occurred at cruise altitude, with enough Gs to prevent use of O2 masks. If it played out that way, maybe all were beyond pain or fear within about 20 seconds ...