Pilot's Cooperative Airline
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Starting an airline now is the time to do it. Leases are as cheap as chips and if you can raise the money (difficult bit...) then getting going in a slump can be beneficial as long as you can survive until the upswing.
Good companies should always reward their staff for a good performance. If you can help the people who work there to take some ownership of the airline, then that is invariably beneficial. You get far fewer jobsworths and a much better team spirit.
I know having happy workers seems to be a crime in aviation today (well for the most part any way) but that's because most airlines seem to be run purely on the basis of numbers, rather than less easy to define qualities such as customer experience or quality of service.
I am convinced that there is a market for an airline that combines some old school principles such as customer service and providing value for money, but combining that with no frills principles.
I still remember GO very fondly as a passenger and having very current experience of working at the old dinosaur that is bmi I know that when the doors close on the place, then I for one will miss it because of the atmosphere. If somewhere is a "nice place to work" then that's great. I'm not in flying just for the money, I'm in it because I love it first and foremost, so getting paid well, but being treated like crap doesn't really appeal.
A co-op is simply a way of involving the people who work for the company in more than just a financial way and get them caring about the place for reasons other than the monthly pay cheque.
There's nothing socialist about that, unless you believe that simply treating people like adults rather than wage slaves is somehow socialism gone mad.
Good companies should always reward their staff for a good performance. If you can help the people who work there to take some ownership of the airline, then that is invariably beneficial. You get far fewer jobsworths and a much better team spirit.
I know having happy workers seems to be a crime in aviation today (well for the most part any way) but that's because most airlines seem to be run purely on the basis of numbers, rather than less easy to define qualities such as customer experience or quality of service.
I am convinced that there is a market for an airline that combines some old school principles such as customer service and providing value for money, but combining that with no frills principles.
I still remember GO very fondly as a passenger and having very current experience of working at the old dinosaur that is bmi I know that when the doors close on the place, then I for one will miss it because of the atmosphere. If somewhere is a "nice place to work" then that's great. I'm not in flying just for the money, I'm in it because I love it first and foremost, so getting paid well, but being treated like crap doesn't really appeal.
A co-op is simply a way of involving the people who work for the company in more than just a financial way and get them caring about the place for reasons other than the monthly pay cheque.
There's nothing socialist about that, unless you believe that simply treating people like adults rather than wage slaves is somehow socialism gone mad.
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As we can see now with the economic situation in Euroland, capitalism has worked and created wealth in the beginning, but if you do not switch quickly enough to a more socialist model the greedy will eventually push the economy untill breaking point and beyond. Now it has been research many many times, that is, if you make decisions based on greed the quality of the decisionmaking is of a poor quality compared to a team in which everybody has an equal say in how the business is run. Works for countries as well as on a business level. Im personally very much a fan of the Scandinavian model, with relatively low income differences the Scandi's outperform many coutries in regards to education, healthcare, general hapiness and wellbeing. There is a direct correlation between income differences and all kinds of social problems. The bigger the differences the bigger the problems.
Companies that have adopted a more coorperative model seem to do very well and have a happy workforce. It just makes business sense to adopt this model. A company like Ryanair may very well be pushed beyond its breaking point by its management. Is it a coincidence that Ireland happens to be one of the countries in Europe that have relatively large differences in income??
Companies that have adopted a more coorperative model seem to do very well and have a happy workforce. It just makes business sense to adopt this model. A company like Ryanair may very well be pushed beyond its breaking point by its management. Is it a coincidence that Ireland happens to be one of the countries in Europe that have relatively large differences in income??
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