So hardly anyone has left have they?

Engineering MAN. August 2001 staff level 160.

October 2002 staff level 39.

Engineering at BHX is to go completely soon.

Many of the MAN staff were told to leave the company or move to LHR.
The severance package was LESS than the Flight Engineers got but BA said they could not afford it anymore.

That is why Fanny batter is upset and chooses to vent his spleen in such a sardonic manner.

Notso, lighten up for **** sake.:mad:

BOROUGH COUNCIL (?),
This thread is not full of humour.
But it is certainly full of tossers stating a total load of crap,trying,as usual in Reporting Points to stir things by pretending that some far-fetches story that they have just concocted is actually fact.
NotsoF is 100% right.Most professional pilots regard Reporting Points as a place where sad little kids post total fiction in the hope that someone may actually believe them and start a two-way dialogue.I suppose it gives them a break from playing with the flights sims on the pc and watching Cartoon Network !
The only worthwhile info in PPruNe is normally found within the private airline forums,where 90% of the prats here couldn't gain access-based mainly on the fact that airlines don't tend to employ spotty-faced losers who once had a trial lesson and got airsick.

HOVIS,

you sign off with "GIZAJOB".


I think that is unlikely,somehow.





PS
One wholemeal,one white please,and can you slice them.Thanks

While I agree with the sentiments expressed by many about the 'quality' of posts on RP, may I point out to all the 'professionals' that there are some excellent other forums on PPrune than the 'private' ones, and I suggest if they have not done so, they have a look at ATC/Safety etc/Tech Log/Computers for starters, and perhaps some of their faith can be restored?

NotSoFantastic, why don't you just succumb to your peer pressure and bog off somewhere else. All we seem to get from you is incessant moaning about what is posted on this forum being beneath your itellect and standing in the airline community.

If you assume that the entire pilot community are just like you in your cloistered world of a Big Airlines long haul megafleet then you are obviously not as bright as you like us to believe. Just because you have asked your colleagues on the flight deck whether they read Pprune and the result of your straw poll is "not any more (shudder)" then I would think that at least half of them wouldn't admit it to you anyway and the other half are not going to provoke you into one of your incessant moans for the next few hours of the flight!

I agree that there are often some supercillious posts but in general most of the threads that stay on here have something worth discussing. The posts about the holding fuel for just one example are very interesting and I don't see a lot of silly posts by the Flight Sim 2000 brigade. Overall I think that the moderators are doing a good job in keeping the content relevant in the appropriate forums. I suggest you take some nerve calming drugs before you go into rant mode and slag off Pprune with your sweeping statements about the content.

Before you burst a blood vessel whilst replying just don't assume that the persons forum name or profile has much relevance to their actual occupation or knowledge and understanding of the airline business, just as we won't assume your forum name has any relevance either.

Same applies to Minesagrolsch and BOAC.

Cargo boy, Dont take old NotSoSpastic too seriously, hes just someone on a windup. Hes a sort of Victor Meldrew and Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells all rolled into one and some of his 'rantings' are hilarious and certainly provoke some good discussions. He plays the role of a senior BA LH pilot who believes BA only exists for the pilots and the pilots are the only people who should be working for BA and every one else should be got rid of or farmed out etc.
If you review his posts you'll see he never actually starts any he justs jumps in and tells you you shouldnt have started one, or that you should have posted it elsewhere etc etc or tosses in a highly contraversial opinion then sits back and watches it degenerate, as I said some of them are highly amusing.
Try it for yourself and see, just post a topic close to his heart, light the blue touch papera and retreat a safe distance. You have to bait him though so your post should include some of the following words, though not necessarily in this order......
"BA pilots, strike, pay parity, with CSDs" etc etc....
Have fun.