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Old 27th May 2017, 10:25
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As pilots you are always ahead of the airplane and you know what's coming from the present state of the flight.
When you think about the company and your job future you should apply the same concept. Forget about the meteoric rise and fairly pleasant cruise so far. The most basic business assumptions on revenue, cost and profit are no longer playing out. In other words the company is losing energy rapidly.
What if your culture prevented you from thinking about avoiding a stall? What if you insisted on executing a flight plan drafted a long time ago in a cosy office? What if you relieved your FO from duty because he called out the dropping Air Speed?
Don't believe for one minute that the realities of Global competition are more forgiving than the physics of flight. What is about to happen to EK is as unavoidable as an unmitigated stall.
When you bank your family's future on the rest of the EK journey you should not draw on past experience. The future will be very different. The longer they deny the truth, the less control they will have over the descent.
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