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The Mount Cook Group was used by Air New Zealand to set up Freedom Air. The Mount Cook Group owned Mt Cook Airline at that time and used the management staff to interview prospective cabin crew for Freedom. Britannia Airways provided Crew for a while as well.
When Air New Zealand bought 100% of the Mount Cook Group they sold off the non core business units of the Group and renamed Mount Cook Airline, Mount Cook Airline Ltd, a self contained company that no longer had an interest in Freedom Air, and became part of the Air new Zealand Link brand.
Freedom Air became a seperate company.
The Mount Cook Group is now only a paper company.
When Air New Zealand bought 100% of the Mount Cook Group they sold off the non core business units of the Group and renamed Mount Cook Airline, Mount Cook Airline Ltd, a self contained company that no longer had an interest in Freedom Air, and became part of the Air new Zealand Link brand.
Freedom Air became a seperate company.
The Mount Cook Group is now only a paper company.
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I sit here reading thru all this and it makes me remember why I left some years ago.
From time to time I think it would be nice to leave all the b'sh!t that exists here, and score myself a nice "lifestyle" job back home.
To me a Lifestyle job means I can live in play in the country I love, and go to work with something to look at out the window occasionally, and still have some sort of home life at the end of most days.
Then I read this and wake up and realise its a non existent dream! When I heard about Pacific Blue I thought maybe?
Fat chance. As someone already said, with each new operation the conditions get worse. The Pacific peso buys nothing on the world scene as it is, the fat cats feather their own nests, while the rest sh!t all over each other to get ahead (relatively speaking). Early days yet, but I'm sure Pacific Blue will be as lean and mean as they come, min rest will become the catch phrase, the slavers will crack the whip and the hords will surge forward. No, I dont think my lifestyle job exists back there yet.
Dont get me wrong, I dont mind an honest days work, just as long as you know (and recieve) an honest days rest in return.
To be honest, I really dont think my idea of utopia will ever exist. As I said, reading all this does take me back to why I did leave in the first place.
As an addendum; The frusrating thing I find, is that while we sell ourselves so short back home in our local market, we really are not third rate on the world market. I think maybe its the environment we have to cut our teeth in enroute to getting ourselves to a reasonably employable level, bodes well for our overall expeience down the track somewhere.
Again dont get me wrong, we certainly are not the wonder boys of aviation (dont think anyone can claim that crown), but having flown with many that have not had that grass roots survival experience in their early days, just makes me realise - we are NOT the third world of aviators.
Then why do we accept it?? Why is it crap back home?? and it aint gettin any better!!
From time to time I think it would be nice to leave all the b'sh!t that exists here, and score myself a nice "lifestyle" job back home.
To me a Lifestyle job means I can live in play in the country I love, and go to work with something to look at out the window occasionally, and still have some sort of home life at the end of most days.
Then I read this and wake up and realise its a non existent dream! When I heard about Pacific Blue I thought maybe?
Fat chance. As someone already said, with each new operation the conditions get worse. The Pacific peso buys nothing on the world scene as it is, the fat cats feather their own nests, while the rest sh!t all over each other to get ahead (relatively speaking). Early days yet, but I'm sure Pacific Blue will be as lean and mean as they come, min rest will become the catch phrase, the slavers will crack the whip and the hords will surge forward. No, I dont think my lifestyle job exists back there yet.
Dont get me wrong, I dont mind an honest days work, just as long as you know (and recieve) an honest days rest in return.
To be honest, I really dont think my idea of utopia will ever exist. As I said, reading all this does take me back to why I did leave in the first place.
As an addendum; The frusrating thing I find, is that while we sell ourselves so short back home in our local market, we really are not third rate on the world market. I think maybe its the environment we have to cut our teeth in enroute to getting ourselves to a reasonably employable level, bodes well for our overall expeience down the track somewhere.
Again dont get me wrong, we certainly are not the wonder boys of aviation (dont think anyone can claim that crown), but having flown with many that have not had that grass roots survival experience in their early days, just makes me realise - we are NOT the third world of aviators.
Then why do we accept it?? Why is it crap back home?? and it aint gettin any better!!
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Come on you must realise. And we do not have the same culture as that of Asia and Africa. Hence we do not need comments of hull losses etc. Because mate it is not going to happen
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Don't forget that, prior to Mt Erebus, the Kiwis also managed to write off:
* L188 Electra plus crew during crew training, and
* DC 8 plus crew during crew training.
Not so good, fellas!
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Don't forget that, prior to Mt Erebus, the Kiwis also managed to write off:
* L188 Electra plus crew during crew training, and
* DC 8 plus crew during crew training.
Not so good, fellas!
