Originally Posted by
lederhosen
David thanks for confirming that. The rather minimal interest in this huge issue still surprises me. Nothing is black and white, Hunold was a fantastic marketeer and created a great brand. Air Berlin has provided well paid cockpit jobs. But a lot of the other stuff is classic Harvard business school case material.
You mention the "well paid cockpit jobs". Does this to some extent explain the problem?
Ryanair and Easyjet, especially the former, are notorious for poor employment practices, but it has enabled them to become true "low cost" airlines. Did AB have the same ambitions, but simply, to make that model succeed, they should have clamped down on high personnel costs in the same way that the more successful low-cost carriers have?
Please do not take this the wrong way, I disagree with some of the more extreme employment examples of staff cost cutting, but is it a harsh reality that if you want to deliver what clearly the public want, cockpit and cabin crews costs have to be firmly controlled?