Mr Swaffield was pretty distraught on the Radio I thought. I am sure he did what he could in the situation in which he found himself. I echo those comments about managers - as one who has had to instigate and oversee redundancy etc. I can say that not all are hard hearted s*ds.
In my view Monarch were just victims of the race to the bottom. I don't want to fly every week and do so once or twice a year for "pleasure" "these days- I do want to be comfortable and be looked after. Even that is more often than when I was a young father and Cromer or Penzance once a year was the norm. But I know a young person who has been to New York with Norwegian, and Geneva and Mikonos with Easy within the last few weeks!. It is just a cheap bus that people like her require.