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It is US$600,000 a day.
Krinkle, I think GF will be bigger than emirates one day, as it isnt buying too many planes, GF will have its time to shine.
I personally think that Emirates is buying to many planes, how on earth is emirates ment to fill these planes up!
Gf is clearly going in the right direction, and NOONE can predict the loss of any company, maybe it will be less or more! It has cut some of its losses and is improving every aspect of the company!
Krinkle, I think GF will be bigger than emirates one day, as it isnt buying too many planes, GF will have its time to shine.
I personally think that Emirates is buying to many planes, how on earth is emirates ment to fill these planes up!
Gf is clearly going in the right direction, and NOONE can predict the loss of any company, maybe it will be less or more! It has cut some of its losses and is improving every aspect of the company!
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Flygulfair, someone put drugs in your sheesha or something?
i agree with the comment on politically motivated employment as opposed to operationally motivated employment.
the pink palace is littered with idle and unnecessary staff. unfortunately, a lot of them have been there for years.
new heads of department are appointed every few days. there's even a vice president who heads an office of less than ten. wtf?
definitely a case of too many chiefs and too many indians.
gf needs to HALVE the contents of the pink palace.
on the operational front, crews are flying more and more turnaround, back to back, red-eye flights with minimum rest in between.
i realise the need for more effective and efficient utilisation of crew but for the right and fair reasons, not because headquarters overheads are busting at the seams, especially with overstaffing and useless, toothless vice presidents.
i agree with the comment on politically motivated employment as opposed to operationally motivated employment.
the pink palace is littered with idle and unnecessary staff. unfortunately, a lot of them have been there for years.
new heads of department are appointed every few days. there's even a vice president who heads an office of less than ten. wtf?
definitely a case of too many chiefs and too many indians.
gf needs to HALVE the contents of the pink palace.
on the operational front, crews are flying more and more turnaround, back to back, red-eye flights with minimum rest in between.
i realise the need for more effective and efficient utilisation of crew but for the right and fair reasons, not because headquarters overheads are busting at the seams, especially with overstaffing and useless, toothless vice presidents.
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Try going to the Refund Department (or whatever that's called).
This is one place in any company (especially in the government) where there are lots of people doing nothing, well relatively, considering the number of people in the department tasked to do a few jobs.
This is because this is one department where the company's money goes out but not to necessary expenses but to its employees whom they can afford to keep waiting for a long time for money which belonged to them in the first place.
This is one place in any company (especially in the government) where there are lots of people doing nothing, well relatively, considering the number of people in the department tasked to do a few jobs.
This is because this is one department where the company's money goes out but not to necessary expenses but to its employees whom they can afford to keep waiting for a long time for money which belonged to them in the first place.
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The problem is that to return to profitability the plan was to cut routes and STAFF. Yet they never cut the staff!!!!!!!!!
So they rethink and decide to grow the airline with the current staff levels (though I don't know if they can do that successfully) - which is a great way around the problem of not being able to cut staff - grow it to the size it should be for the staff level. You know - keep the government and those idiot MP's happy.
But this was planned pre-fuel crisis time and now EVERY airline is hurting. The question to ask is how long will the Bahraini government be willing to accept not only the current losses but double that (or close to it anyway) when the fleet doubles??!!!!!
Then again they may have accepted these losses in the growth planning. Us pleabes can only guess.
So they rethink and decide to grow the airline with the current staff levels (though I don't know if they can do that successfully) - which is a great way around the problem of not being able to cut staff - grow it to the size it should be for the staff level. You know - keep the government and those idiot MP's happy.
But this was planned pre-fuel crisis time and now EVERY airline is hurting. The question to ask is how long will the Bahraini government be willing to accept not only the current losses but double that (or close to it anyway) when the fleet doubles??!!!!!
Then again they may have accepted these losses in the growth planning. Us pleabes can only guess.
