EASY NOW...! (Eds replacement)
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Market leader in FRMS?
That was so 5 years ago.
For the past 2 years they've been slowly forcing random rostering back into the system through various sneaky channels. And the lifestyle / work balance I'm afraid is a myth at the larger bases - weeks away on your own at other bases, 12hours on, 12 hours off (which IS fatiguing when you factor in all the positioning in cars/planes across the network, plus the drive to and from work, little/poor quality food on board), NO support on the phone (if they answer) when down-route etc etc...
If it costs money it's not gonna last I'm afraid. Not in 21st century aviation.
However none of this was the doing of the manager in question so a clean slate is only fair...
That was so 5 years ago.
For the past 2 years they've been slowly forcing random rostering back into the system through various sneaky channels. And the lifestyle / work balance I'm afraid is a myth at the larger bases - weeks away on your own at other bases, 12hours on, 12 hours off (which IS fatiguing when you factor in all the positioning in cars/planes across the network, plus the drive to and from work, little/poor quality food on board), NO support on the phone (if they answer) when down-route etc etc...
If it costs money it's not gonna last I'm afraid. Not in 21st century aviation.
However none of this was the doing of the manager in question so a clean slate is only fair...
All I can say is.......if you have not already got LIDO flight planning, you will soon.....and then you will all be flying around on vapours, like the rest of us!! 
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Sorry to intrude on your forum but as one who has absolutely no interest in the ME all I can tell you is that in his time at EZY during which all the other middle/senior managers have been making a complete hash of it and making themselves deliberately unpopular , John Alsford isn't someone who the average EZY pilot would recognise if they tripped over him in the corridors of H89 which is quite an achievement.
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...on the other hand this was the same guy who, when my base was axed, was telling us pilots that since we were needed that we would have to work our 3 month notice period whilst at the same time the CC and engineers were being given 3 months pay in lieu of notice and were leaving immediately to fresh pastures. After much stress and arguement and union involvement the company capitulated and declared us redundant if we wished as the base had forcibly been closed on us. Hope that we can see more eye to eye this time around....
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What about TOGA - That Other Guy Alsford or That Orange Guy Alsford
I was thinking TEFAL - That Easy Fella ( or substitute your own F
)I'm assuming not much will stick
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What I have sen from my side of the fence out here, is that they higher management come in and probably are good chaps. Even had one chap with the motto " I will either fix it or get Fired ".
Great and fantastic things will change what a better place this will be ........ No !!!!!!
As some of the above posts state give him a few months of being bent over and vaselined up by the other management, and 90% of these guys hang on for with their finger nails like a quivering lump of jelly.
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Great and fantastic things will change what a better place this will be ........ No !!!!!!
As some of the above posts state give him a few months of being bent over and vaselined up by the other management, and 90% of these guys hang on for with their finger nails like a quivering lump of jelly.
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We still need a nick name for MM the training dude
We only seem to get the derogatory knickname for those who have screwed us
