View Full Version : Dragonair Cargo MAN Base Closure
OldChinaHand
20th Nov 2008, 06:38
KA Cargo Manchester Base is to close early 2009. The base will start winding down in Jan 2009 and full closure will be complete by mid year. As all KA classic freighters will be retired by Jan 2009, only 2 744's will remain. One will be parked and the other will be based on regional routes ex HKG. Crew will have a choice of transfer to HKG at current rank to take up position on the KA Pax fleet or Voluntary Redundancy Scheme.
hekokimushi
22nd Nov 2008, 02:26
anyone not going over to the bus fleet?? and decide to stay home?? what are the guys in MAN feel about the whole thing?
HarmonyJ
22nd Nov 2008, 13:07
HKA is going to need B747 cargo driver. If you can stand this "troubled" airlines, welcome!
KABOY
23rd Nov 2008, 00:06
Krone,
The BOP devised by the CX City management spelt the end to MAN, not PS.
If you read all the notices put out by L2 you would realise this is where it came from.
Who are you trying to wind up?
Give the guy a break he's only just got his feet under the table. He didn't engineer the current financial crisis nor the CX takeover. If you talk to the DPA reps. they will tell you it was PS who pushed through our recent improvement in CoS.
OldChinaHand
23rd Nov 2008, 01:42
To be fair, blame for this cannot be laid with PS. The demise of the MAN Freighter base was set in motion as soon as CX bought out KA. It was not a matter of if, it was a matter of when !!. So the only variable was the time-frame.
Krone, if you want to throw rocks, throw well deserved ones.
Hoofharted
24th Nov 2008, 15:18
If I had an Aston I'd flaunt the bloody thing as well. :}
Krone,
Sounds to me like the credit crunch is really getting to you, get a life and go and see the shrink, you need help! Try and concentrate on your own 'pot of gold' instead of management's, you'll find it a lot more productive.
Here we are with the MAN base closure announced possibly forcing many of our freighter pilots to move half way round the world and all you can do is complain about how much the GMO earns!:ugh:
Dear Krone
You really need to take a chill pill mate. Or maybe a stroll round the Dragonair car park to check out the ferraris, mercs, and porsche that your colleagues are driving.
Whoosh1999
25th Nov 2008, 04:13
Looks like you'll be the easy one to spot in KA House, Krone, being the bright shade of green you obviously are.
You also have no concept of what went on with the freighter - the writing was on the wall long before PS took over and before RH had his spell too.