I do not know if the comment from Compton is aimed at myself or not. I know all about life as a pilot who has been made redundant and spent 15 months on the dole wondering if I would ever fly for a living again and how I was going to pay my mortgage and support my family as the end of my mortgage protection insurance was imminent.
I had known that my company was going to have the contract I was employed on terminated 18 months prior to the end, unfortunately this was at the height of the last recession. All in I had nearly 3 years of stress and worry, the Monarch crew have my sympathy, I know exactly how they must feel.
I also know several flight deck crew at Monarch so consider it to be a positive sign that the rescue aircraft are sitting idle. The sooner they go home unused the better.