View Full Version : Air 2000 fo goes awol
wobble-head
2nd Jan 2002, 21:11
Heard a rumour that an FO with air 2 bob was acting suspiciously during a flight and has since been uncontactable. Apparently the company did a background check and found his passport was invalid. Any takers?
snooze_ya_lose
3rd Jan 2002, 00:13
Tsk tsk, you should know by now that any post saying anything slightly unflattering about Air 2 Bob will be binned immediately, surprised it lasted this long! <img src="wink.gif" border="0"> :)
Guess the Head of Operation is out in the moment.... :) :) <img src="eek.gif" border="0">
The Guvnor
3rd Jan 2002, 01:36
Wasn't OzDude was it, aka Bruce Hobbs? <img src="wink.gif" border="0">
andy.summers
3rd Jan 2002, 01:43
Does that mean that yet another of the 32 pilots who were unfortunately made redundant will be asked back (last I heard 11 had been reinstated)?
beamer
3rd Jan 2002, 12:16
Hot rumour is that more will be invited back in the Spring - possibly on short-term contracts.
Master plan of six crews per aircraft down from
six and a half sounds fine to the accountants but
if the summer is busier than expected it will soon
all turn to worms.
Clearly inappropriate to speculate on the missing
co-pilot - the legal beagles would soon be on the
case !
Daddy-O
3rd Jan 2002, 14:58
Bounced this thread off some people who would know at Air2Bob and they said(quote)"...it's news to us." (unquote).The whole notion of the topic sounds like a load of poo to me!
toulouse_le_trek
4th Jan 2002, 01:52
beamer if what you say is true, then lets hope those invited back are invited back long term considering the disgraceful way they were shown the door. I hope the company got all its cleaning vouchers back! To those who were made redundant I would say, tell the company where to shove their short term contracts, a greater display of profiteering will never have seen the light of day before if they do go down that road. BTW I hope you all had a very pleasant christmas after your demotion notices, ooops I mean redundancy notices were recieved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<img src="mad.gif" border="0">
airwalker
7th Jan 2002, 16:42
Have heard that unless passenger booking numbers meet the set 6 monthly targets that there will be further redundancies and all staff have been made aware of this. It looks that passenger numbers had not yet picked up prior to christmas, however the post xmas bookings are relied upon more so this year than any other .I can only hope that all there is no more cuts on the table for everyone at air2bob
beamer
7th Jan 2002, 19:04
Please see Peter Long's comments in yesterdays
Sunday Telegraph business section - bookings are
picking up as evidenced by many people's inability
to actually get the holiday they want this coming
summer.
As regards future cost-cutting and/or redundancies
their can be little doubt that when the accountants have tasted blood they really do get
to like the idea - however, the general perception
is that A2k will be short of line pilots at the
beginning of the summer season and that is without
the possible/probable loss of pilots who have
'other irons in the fire' but who have not actually resigned just yet !