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I'm very saddened for you john and its a great loss to gulf air to lose a loyal guy like you.
I wish you the best luck in where ever you wind up.
We'll miss your posts here.
I wish you the best luck in where ever you wind up.
We'll miss your posts here.
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Well, no need to stop posting. Hope you will now be loyal to your Licencing Authority & not what is painted on the side of an aeroplane or what might be tatooed on you're rear end ! John, you are a "Commercial Pilot". You do what you do for money in a cut-throat commercial world. Of course you will re-establish yourself quickly & any employer should be glad to have you on team. If I was hiring, I would have you tomorrow. But, I would tell you to enjoy your flying, if in the LHS, at the end of a trip, sign the tech-log & go home. That's it. All the very best to a worthy debater, worthy ,if at times, naive poster and a worthy professional pilot with an exciting future ahead.
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I'm really sorry to hear that news. These might interest some people...
https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/1033...ASC-W-HomePage
Careers
Depending on present arrangements for kids schooling / housing etc, this might be considered as commuting jobs
Sorry, 21, SVA only seeking Captains.
Good Luck.
https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/1033...ASC-W-HomePage
Careers
Depending on present arrangements for kids schooling / housing etc, this might be considered as commuting jobs
Sorry, 21, SVA only seeking Captains.
Good Luck.
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John, I'm really sorry to hear that, buddy... My impression is that you are a smart and loyal guy, but what I really like is the way you say "bye" - with dignity and good manners. I'm sure you'll be fine after this storm passes, cause you seem to be a good man! And at the end of the day this is the most important thing. I wish you and the rest of the guys good luck.
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well well well. it finally comes back to haunt them. after years and years of looting, lining pockets, nepotism, downright corrupt practice after corrupt practice. the falcon has fallen. thank you to the corrupt s-o-bs for ruining many lives, including your own fellow countrymen's lives. @ssholes.
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Dear John21UK
i don't know how I could rephrase in a better way what ferris, flame_bringer, Landflap, and dzmeigloem have said.
You have been valued and respected poster on this forum, and well regarded by your colleagues at Gulf Air. You will be missed here.
I hope that you will achieve all that you strive for, both in the field of aviation and your personal life, and that our paths will cross again in this small world of aviation professionals.
Ma'a salama.
PJ
i don't know how I could rephrase in a better way what ferris, flame_bringer, Landflap, and dzmeigloem have said.
You have been valued and respected poster on this forum, and well regarded by your colleagues at Gulf Air. You will be missed here.
I hope that you will achieve all that you strive for, both in the field of aviation and your personal life, and that our paths will cross again in this small world of aviation professionals.
Ma'a salama.
PJ
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It is extremely sad and tragic with the future of Gulf Air. Once a respectable and most wanted to be in airline, is sinking more rapidly than one can think. Vast amount of managers of no competence nor airline experience or skills are running the show. It was enevitable the outcome of this once glorious airline.
Now with Kathmandu, Colombo and Dhaka on the list of demise, I wonder how big the losses will be as Qatar, Emirates and Etihad will snatch the slots made vacant by this Stupid airline which can think only for a day in advance only, if that. Wonder if the term FORDEC ever applied to the management
Time to " mitigate " as they proudly mention, and seek greener pastures.
Now with Kathmandu, Colombo and Dhaka on the list of demise, I wonder how big the losses will be as Qatar, Emirates and Etihad will snatch the slots made vacant by this Stupid airline which can think only for a day in advance only, if that. Wonder if the term FORDEC ever applied to the management
Time to " mitigate " as they proudly mention, and seek greener pastures.
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I had a casual talk with one of the GF Directors the other day. I was shocked by the state of denials he was in. He claimed that with the new board and government support, GF is firmly on the recovery course! When I challenged him on the route closures, downsizing , debts, losses , competetions from the big boyz etc.. he still maintaned that all those issues were negligible and happened in the past , GF will be stronger and on the road to full recovery !
Now, this is a guy who is highly educated with honor degree and has not reached his post in GF as a result of nepotism or being a member of the family , but because of merit. If a person in his class and education has this sort of mentality and living in denial , than what are the chances ?
Now, this is a guy who is highly educated with honor degree and has not reached his post in GF as a result of nepotism or being a member of the family , but because of merit. If a person in his class and education has this sort of mentality and living in denial , than what are the chances ?
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Mike Alpha, this is normal. Being in a state of denial is the pinnacle of the state that the management are in.
They are ignoring all the relevant facts as long as their wallets are getting fatter and their GOSI payments after they leave, are recieved. Who in their right minds would decide on closing lucrative routes that generate cargo loads and feeder passengers to other stations.
Well done GF management. Simply well done
They are ignoring all the relevant facts as long as their wallets are getting fatter and their GOSI payments after they leave, are recieved. Who in their right minds would decide on closing lucrative routes that generate cargo loads and feeder passengers to other stations. Well done GF management. Simply well done
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Meeting
Now this fabulous company are organising a meeting... Basically everybody is going to suffer because of their past stupid decisions. All I know is that my job is gone and they are keeping theirs.
I want to say thank you to all the crew I flown with. It was an amazing experience. I will miss it!!
I want to say thank you to all the crew I flown with. It was an amazing experience. I will miss it!!
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How many times I've read this:
"... the executive restructuring committee and the Gulf Air management have been working on a balanced restructuring strategy that will take the airline on a path towards sustainability and support the future economic development of Bahrain."
It's a typical bloody copy-paste stuff!!!!!!
"... the executive restructuring committee and the Gulf Air management have been working on a balanced restructuring strategy that will take the airline on a path towards sustainability and support the future economic development of Bahrain."
It's a typical bloody copy-paste stuff!!!!!!
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I put the article through Google translate and this is what it came up with:
Minions!
As you all know, following the appointment of another Board of Directors in November last year, led by H.E. Shaikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister, the Executive Corruption Committee and the Gulf Air management stooges have been creating another seemingly bizarre restructuring strategy that will take our airline on a path towards complete destruction and ensure a future economic drain on the money left in Bahrain.
I am now pleased to announce that the strategy has been finalised following a quick brain storming session in Costa last Thursday. We managed to finish before 11am, so we could all enjoy a fulsome weekend.
The strategy aims at weakening our national carrier’s core services by reducing our fleet and network, increasing losses, reducing revenue, ensuring cost increases, making up a new organisational structure (this will be complicated so we've postponed it) and re-engineering our internal processes to flummox our employees and put our airline into its final spiral dive as a national carrier. This will serve to line the pockets of the great and good while ensuring the customers and employees remain in a permanent state of confusion regarding the future. At least until we can take early retirement.
Below is the outline of the strategy;
A much reduced Network to lose more customers.
We will focus on our Middle East and North Africa (MENA) operations to ensure that our customers cannot connect to virtually anywhere. Consequently, we will reduce our operations from 40 to 32 destinations; however, we will continue to maintain our leadership position in the Middle East by operating the only "sinking dhow" of a company.
The reduction of the network will allow us to park much of our fleet and waste resources as efficiently as possible in MENA markets by moving away from transit traffic and concentrating on low-demand but high yield point-to-point routes to connect the few Bahraini businesses remaining with the few regional markets remaining. Somebody suggested that connections maketh the network carrier, so we fired them for being insubordinate.
A Simplified, Modern fleet
As we reduce our network, our fleet size also will be reduced to meet the almost non-existent network and flight schedule. We will be operating a small mix of wide and narrow body aircraft with one of the youngest fleets in the region (4.8 years), to match the average age of our new cadet second officers.
A wrong-sized Workforce
Our workforce requirement will be mostly fired, to meet the operational, maintenance and administrative needs of the decimated fleet and network. Wrong-sizing of workforce will be implemented across all levels of the organization and will be done on a random and scatter-gun basis weighed up against what the elected, but commercially daft, politicians are demanding. Priority will be on retaining the most productive employees with focus on maintaining key talent (hahahaha, gotcha! No it won't).
A Financially Weaker Airline
The restructuring plan will result in cost increases of 124% by the end of January. In addition, other strategic initiatives that have been plucked out of fresh air will further increase costs and screw the financial results in 2014 and beyond. Our Revenue per Available Seat Kilometre (ASK) will reduce 19% in February by firing most of the revenue management and sales staff, random frequency adjustments and lots of route cancellations.
We have also developed an employees’ portal at MyGulfAir that includes a rarely updated news feed, a ‘frequently asked question’ that will be possibly updated only once to clarify none of your queries and an interactive forum for you to shrug your cyber shoulders, discuss where to sleep at night and raise merry hell about the current shambles. The portal will be accessible to all staff from Thursday the 17 January 2013 at 2330 to Friday the 18 January 2013 at 0010. The employee portal link wont't be shared with you, if you guess it, well done, you get an extra day of redundancy payment.
Let us commit ourselves to the local psychiatric hospital as this strategy is doomed to failure and repeated banging of our heads against the pink walls will cause us further brain injuries.
Maher Salman Al Musallam
Acting Chief Executive Officer
Minions!
As you all know, following the appointment of another Board of Directors in November last year, led by H.E. Shaikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister, the Executive Corruption Committee and the Gulf Air management stooges have been creating another seemingly bizarre restructuring strategy that will take our airline on a path towards complete destruction and ensure a future economic drain on the money left in Bahrain.
I am now pleased to announce that the strategy has been finalised following a quick brain storming session in Costa last Thursday. We managed to finish before 11am, so we could all enjoy a fulsome weekend.
The strategy aims at weakening our national carrier’s core services by reducing our fleet and network, increasing losses, reducing revenue, ensuring cost increases, making up a new organisational structure (this will be complicated so we've postponed it) and re-engineering our internal processes to flummox our employees and put our airline into its final spiral dive as a national carrier. This will serve to line the pockets of the great and good while ensuring the customers and employees remain in a permanent state of confusion regarding the future. At least until we can take early retirement.
Below is the outline of the strategy;
A much reduced Network to lose more customers.
We will focus on our Middle East and North Africa (MENA) operations to ensure that our customers cannot connect to virtually anywhere. Consequently, we will reduce our operations from 40 to 32 destinations; however, we will continue to maintain our leadership position in the Middle East by operating the only "sinking dhow" of a company.
The reduction of the network will allow us to park much of our fleet and waste resources as efficiently as possible in MENA markets by moving away from transit traffic and concentrating on low-demand but high yield point-to-point routes to connect the few Bahraini businesses remaining with the few regional markets remaining. Somebody suggested that connections maketh the network carrier, so we fired them for being insubordinate.
A Simplified, Modern fleet
As we reduce our network, our fleet size also will be reduced to meet the almost non-existent network and flight schedule. We will be operating a small mix of wide and narrow body aircraft with one of the youngest fleets in the region (4.8 years), to match the average age of our new cadet second officers.
A wrong-sized Workforce
Our workforce requirement will be mostly fired, to meet the operational, maintenance and administrative needs of the decimated fleet and network. Wrong-sizing of workforce will be implemented across all levels of the organization and will be done on a random and scatter-gun basis weighed up against what the elected, but commercially daft, politicians are demanding. Priority will be on retaining the most productive employees with focus on maintaining key talent (hahahaha, gotcha! No it won't).
A Financially Weaker Airline
The restructuring plan will result in cost increases of 124% by the end of January. In addition, other strategic initiatives that have been plucked out of fresh air will further increase costs and screw the financial results in 2014 and beyond. Our Revenue per Available Seat Kilometre (ASK) will reduce 19% in February by firing most of the revenue management and sales staff, random frequency adjustments and lots of route cancellations.
We have also developed an employees’ portal at MyGulfAir that includes a rarely updated news feed, a ‘frequently asked question’ that will be possibly updated only once to clarify none of your queries and an interactive forum for you to shrug your cyber shoulders, discuss where to sleep at night and raise merry hell about the current shambles. The portal will be accessible to all staff from Thursday the 17 January 2013 at 2330 to Friday the 18 January 2013 at 0010. The employee portal link wont't be shared with you, if you guess it, well done, you get an extra day of redundancy payment.
Let us commit ourselves to the local psychiatric hospital as this strategy is doomed to failure and repeated banging of our heads against the pink walls will cause us further brain injuries.
Maher Salman Al Musallam
Acting Chief Executive Officer
Last edited by Calmcavok; 17th Jan 2013 at 03:18.