"I wonder how some of the posters on this thread, e.g. Skipness One Echo and Heathrow Harry, would enjoy people posting mere rumours on PPRuNe about the imminent demise of their employers..."
I've been there - more than once - and for sure it's a dreadful feeling...... but then often it just crsytallises something you already knew (if you were in managment) or suspected (if you were the poor bloody infantry).
I never liked the mis-representation and false optimism peddled to try and keep the ship afloat when you knew it was likely that people were still putting up money that they were unlikely to recover
With luck Monarch may survive - I hope it does. Not impressed bythe time it took to get out a decent press release tho' - if that had come out yesterday early it might have quelled a lot of the internet frenzy