JTR
Your soliloquy is duly noted.
I leave Shortly to defend himself as he is far more adept at the cut and thrust of Hyde Park Corner than I.
My reference to SARS and the duty of care that I believe the company has shown is genuine sentiment I have heard expressed from San Francisco to London. This company is much more than flt ops, a point often overlooked in our little world.
As to daring not to sign the SLS, let me throw it back at you.
Perhaps you can explain why you felt under particular duress in signing what was at the time a plan to save jobs, share the pain and prolong the life expectancy of a company under a serious and unquantifiable threat .
It was certainly cobbled together in haste and had some flaws in implementation but IMHO the principal on which it was founded was fair and reasonable for all.
You paint quite a Machiavellian picture of a CX Gulag. If that is indeed your view then perhaps you might be happier elsewhere.
I, for one, still think I am working for a better company than many of my countrymen at SQ (well not so many anymore!),EK and all those on contracts at Korean, China Airlines, Skymark, Air Japan and host of other 2 year career airlines. And look what is coming down the Mascot turnpike.
Finally, perhaps you could explain to me why you seem so surprised that the company struck out at the AOA after flagging that it would and why it would. My view FWIW is that the AOA did not share the risk factor with the rank and file and blindly continued its beligerent bluff with a pair of fours against an open and declared flush.
Noone could take any satisfaction from the end result but I think sheeting the blame to the company alone is a gross distortion of the facts.
Last edited by VR-HFX; 15th September 2003 at 23:14.