Originally Posted by
Trafalgar
STW. A thousand words that prove beyond any doubt that you are, a) a management apologist, and b) deluded. Do us all a favour and migrate to a different forum. You have no credibility, and you are only embarrassing yourself.
Yup.
"Market Forces" are often claimed but everywhere ELSE airlines are paying quite well to hire and retain quality experienced individuals. Guess we're special.
Or are taking the airline down the path of a low cost regional without the cost structure to be able to support it with predictable results.
Basings represent a phenomenal opportunity to bring costs down (and, more importantly, keep them down; the upward spiraling costs of HKG don't show much sign of abating but the airline is betting the farm on being able to retain individuals on ever decreasing conditions). Yet the thought of actually having to make a deal, keep people happy, comply with a few rules, and lose the ability to impose, browbeat, and hit people with a stick is so repugnant to the powers that be it's not happening--when it needed to happen like the day before yesterday. Increasing base slots dramatically is a real no-brainer. Then again I guess you have to use a brain to begin with to see no-brainers.
The plan for the airline required quality service and expansion in order to work. Yet they've so alienated everyone working here they can't crew the jets properly--assets which are phenomenally expensive when they sit and don't earn their keep.
For some reason stw always seems to harp on 'proof'. Well, you don't have to look very far. A simple look at the last set of financials released shows nothing going in the right direction, and everything going in the wrong direction. That's proof enough for me.