wataniya, going belly up.
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Sorry to hear about all the troubles at WY, I for one, was hoping that it would do well. Kuwait Airlines is notoriously crap and KUW deserved something better than just a loco. I've flown on WY and liked it.
You have to ask yourself though if that business model was right for tiny Kuwait.
As for routes...Singapore/KL/Japan/Hongkong/Bangkok??? In an A-320 from KUW? You'd want to have a magic wand and 3 wishes to make that one work.
No point comparing it with EK either as they are in completely different situations.
Best of luck.
D.O.G
You have to ask yourself though if that business model was right for tiny Kuwait.
As for routes...Singapore/KL/Japan/Hongkong/Bangkok??? In an A-320 from KUW? You'd want to have a magic wand and 3 wishes to make that one work.
No point comparing it with EK either as they are in completely different situations.
Best of luck.
D.O.G
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Struggling Wataniya names John Morgan as CCO
(19Jan11, 13:23 GMT, 120 words)
Kuwaiti carrier Wataniya Airways has appointed John Morgan as its chief commercial officer.
Wataniya, which has recently been forced to slash its fleet and network in the face of tough local competition, says it appointed Morgan to drive future growth.
Morgan began his career in 1988 with British Airways, where he served as regional business manager and was promoted to general manager for business sales.
He also served BMI as director of sales and marketing. Most recently, he worked as senior vice-president Europe Middle East and Africa at the former Eos Airlines, and as vice-president overseeing commercial activities for Royal Jet in Abu Dhabi.
Morgan has held senior marketing, sales and commercial positions in various airlines worldwide.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
(19Jan11, 13:23 GMT, 120 words)
Kuwaiti carrier Wataniya Airways has appointed John Morgan as its chief commercial officer.
Wataniya, which has recently been forced to slash its fleet and network in the face of tough local competition, says it appointed Morgan to drive future growth.
Morgan began his career in 1988 with British Airways, where he served as regional business manager and was promoted to general manager for business sales.
He also served BMI as director of sales and marketing. Most recently, he worked as senior vice-president Europe Middle East and Africa at the former Eos Airlines, and as vice-president overseeing commercial activities for Royal Jet in Abu Dhabi.
Morgan has held senior marketing, sales and commercial positions in various airlines worldwide.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
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Let go staff
Yes Met - They let go staff who were pretty much more than deserving ( not all) If you looked at the list (chuck titles) but if you looked at the list, as crew, you could look at a few names and go " thank god" because these guys just did not fit the profile, on the other hand, some names would just put you into shame, because this was staff (you could almost term indispensable) While the official verson has been put out saying staff was let go basis training records, attendance, performance etc ; adding to those factors, majorly a touch of partiality given right on face.
You can terminate people for sick leaves ( because they have no option left esp when their annual leaves don't get approved ; just because your recruitment, planning and staffing capabilities as managerment are poor)
People were thrown out basis performance issues ( does the inflight management system even have something called as an INDIVIDUAL LEARNING PLAN), if with the crew and customer service staff the issue was PERFORMANCE then how many of these employees were sent back to service training for " attitude and performance enhancement" - one doesn't care if they are as big as EK or not, but when they claim to be better than the rest calling it PREMIERE -does the premiere airline even employ someone on the title of Learning and Development Officer/Specialist? then if your staff has performance issues at various levels, its your line managers who need to be thrown out, not the performers.
Personal files of employees can be so well manipulated - its like something you did we did not like so here is a file note regardless you agree with it or no, what option you have anyway, you are alone and we are a panel of management who won't go against eachother, even if we know either of us is doing something wrong!
Attitude of the staff - where's cabin crew welfare panel to take them for inhouse counselling? so when your infra structure is so poor? why blame employees? in their job adverts they can just be clear- WE WANT READYMADE TRAINED EMPLOYEES, WE HAVE NO AREA FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND WE DO NOT UNDERTAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR DEVELOPMENT AS AN INDIVIDUAL, IF YOU MANAGE TO DANCE ON OUR TUNES, AND IF WE R IN THE RIGHT MOOD, MAYBE YOU WILL BE PROMOTED TO THE NEXT LEVEL, TALENT ANYWAY DOESN'T BOTHER US.
You don't become head of CC & IFS till you have been a CC and IFS yourself. And if the airline needs to terminate staff because of attitude and having difficulties with eachother, the first person to be removed should be you! because if problems of your staff get bigger than your capability of resolving them, then they rather find someone to replace you who has a better capability than you, because in business and especially in a peoples business problems are neverending!
To someone who said BKK/KL on 320?? believe me, at this stage even if they dont order but just dry lease a 330 from a different airline (who is struggling like them!) using WA crew and services on those planes to operate Asia would be a lifesaving treatment. Selling tickets is not a doubt on those sectors, besides if the sales and marketing team has any employees (with real degrees) then finding deals to earn through cargos is never difficult.
A new dude is in, lets see what more he does - than having a paid holiday in the middle east!
You can terminate people for sick leaves ( because they have no option left esp when their annual leaves don't get approved ; just because your recruitment, planning and staffing capabilities as managerment are poor)
People were thrown out basis performance issues ( does the inflight management system even have something called as an INDIVIDUAL LEARNING PLAN), if with the crew and customer service staff the issue was PERFORMANCE then how many of these employees were sent back to service training for " attitude and performance enhancement" - one doesn't care if they are as big as EK or not, but when they claim to be better than the rest calling it PREMIERE -does the premiere airline even employ someone on the title of Learning and Development Officer/Specialist? then if your staff has performance issues at various levels, its your line managers who need to be thrown out, not the performers.
Personal files of employees can be so well manipulated - its like something you did we did not like so here is a file note regardless you agree with it or no, what option you have anyway, you are alone and we are a panel of management who won't go against eachother, even if we know either of us is doing something wrong!
Attitude of the staff - where's cabin crew welfare panel to take them for inhouse counselling? so when your infra structure is so poor? why blame employees? in their job adverts they can just be clear- WE WANT READYMADE TRAINED EMPLOYEES, WE HAVE NO AREA FOR IMPROVEMENT, AND WE DO NOT UNDERTAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR DEVELOPMENT AS AN INDIVIDUAL, IF YOU MANAGE TO DANCE ON OUR TUNES, AND IF WE R IN THE RIGHT MOOD, MAYBE YOU WILL BE PROMOTED TO THE NEXT LEVEL, TALENT ANYWAY DOESN'T BOTHER US.
You don't become head of CC & IFS till you have been a CC and IFS yourself. And if the airline needs to terminate staff because of attitude and having difficulties with eachother, the first person to be removed should be you! because if problems of your staff get bigger than your capability of resolving them, then they rather find someone to replace you who has a better capability than you, because in business and especially in a peoples business problems are neverending!
To someone who said BKK/KL on 320?? believe me, at this stage even if they dont order but just dry lease a 330 from a different airline (who is struggling like them!) using WA crew and services on those planes to operate Asia would be a lifesaving treatment. Selling tickets is not a doubt on those sectors, besides if the sales and marketing team has any employees (with real degrees) then finding deals to earn through cargos is never difficult.
A new dude is in, lets see what more he does - than having a paid holiday in the middle east!
