Originally Posted by
Open Descent
The whole Bali thing has been a fiasco since the decision to operate it under a separate AOC, a decision that has never been explained well enough to make me understand the reasons behind it in the first place.
When VA pilots began operating old VA 737's in Tiger livery as part of the Tiger operation under the VAI AOC (
), something like this was always bound to happen.
We have been told very little other than what has occurred has done so as a result of the Indonesian Government imposing new administrative requirements. Take that to mean whatever you like, but the mind certainly does boggle.
So true, but it highlights the gross incompetence of that entire group... the wunderkind who the media couldn't get enough of some years ago has been there 6-7 years now and you can track it by the losses and the reduction of the shares down to mere cents of value. There are supposedly a number of leading airlines owning this complete excuse for an airline group and they sit back and do nothing (other than Air NZ who bailed, no coincidence that they are seen as one of the world's best) yet the others sit there and pump in billions while superman (who's not so super in the media anymore0 explains one disastrous result after the other on 'difficult' or 'depressed' trading conditions). When and what does this bloke have to do to get sacked??? They are in serious need of someone who actually knows what they are doing to come in and they should start by purging all the people who jockey for position and know nothing out the door and actually employing people who know how to run an airline business, including how to mount international operations. JQ did this in 2006 in about 5 months on it's own with no assistance from QF other than the leased A330s and it opened up 5-6 international ports within weeks of each other. VA can't even organise a TT operation to DPS without it being a total debacle. The mind boggles and the head shakes...