How it should work:
Commercial department decides on the aircraft they want to use
-> FOP pays what they must to find the crew
-> the crew fly the planes
-> company makes money
How it (doesn't) work(s) at CX:
FOP decides not to pay their crew as they used to
-> FOP doesn't find enough (experienced) crew
-> FOP thinks the only solution is to reduce the number of pilots on long haul flights
-> FOP pisses off / works to death all the remaining pilots and thus has even less pilots available
-> FOP tells commercial department they have to reduce the number of flights
-> company makes less money
I can't believe our managers are so stubborn, proud and arrogant that they can't admit they were wrong.
2006-2008 was not a perfect example as how to run an expansion, but at least we recruited massively.
Now we are just struggling to keep the same amount of pilots.