11-06-2016, 03:05 PM
Thorny, excellent post mate.
With the present condition of aviation, it will take a holistic approach by all stakeholders to turn the ship around. Aviation is, by nature, unavoidably incestual. Planes need airports and airports need planes, airlines need pilots and pilots need the airlines, engineers need airlines and pilots to break the planes, and so it goes over and over and over.
One common thread throughout the entire aviation package is 'R'egulations. I couldn't be bothered listing the reasoning and necessity of regulations and rules, but suffice to say they are needed and justified, of course only to a certain point. Get them wrong or misuse them and you end up with a 'plane wreck', which is exactly where we are today. And the sad cherry on top of the cake is Miniscule Chester. What an insult to our beloved industry.
Now, as for John 'Il Deuce' Borghetti, I don't believe people like him and that disgusting weasel Joyce are themselves free from blame when it comes to problems at the top end of town. And NX nailed it precisely with his recently made observations in front of a room full of pilots.
Joyce can attribute QF's "financial miracle' on screwing staff, asset depreciation and low oil prices'. The worm hasn't done much else, particularly when it comes to safety.
And Il Deuce has been with Virgin for how long now? And how much were they in the red at the last financial report? A couple of hundred million even though staff wages have been screwed, oil prices are low, and most fares remain ludicrously high? Still having issues with hedging your prices correctly mate? Having some Ansett type problems due to a multiple fleet type, John?
The incompetence of Government as well as the incompetence of airline CEO's is most certainly a contributing factor to most aviation issues. Then you can add in the foolishness and greed of some hedge funds and their cohorts who monopolise airports and associated infrastructure and ensure that it is cheaper to buy the airfare tickets than it is to park at the airport for a week.
It will take a huge shift in mindset to fix our aviation problem.
P_666
With the present condition of aviation, it will take a holistic approach by all stakeholders to turn the ship around. Aviation is, by nature, unavoidably incestual. Planes need airports and airports need planes, airlines need pilots and pilots need the airlines, engineers need airlines and pilots to break the planes, and so it goes over and over and over.
One common thread throughout the entire aviation package is 'R'egulations. I couldn't be bothered listing the reasoning and necessity of regulations and rules, but suffice to say they are needed and justified, of course only to a certain point. Get them wrong or misuse them and you end up with a 'plane wreck', which is exactly where we are today. And the sad cherry on top of the cake is Miniscule Chester. What an insult to our beloved industry.
Now, as for John 'Il Deuce' Borghetti, I don't believe people like him and that disgusting weasel Joyce are themselves free from blame when it comes to problems at the top end of town. And NX nailed it precisely with his recently made observations in front of a room full of pilots.
Joyce can attribute QF's "financial miracle' on screwing staff, asset depreciation and low oil prices'. The worm hasn't done much else, particularly when it comes to safety.
And Il Deuce has been with Virgin for how long now? And how much were they in the red at the last financial report? A couple of hundred million even though staff wages have been screwed, oil prices are low, and most fares remain ludicrously high? Still having issues with hedging your prices correctly mate? Having some Ansett type problems due to a multiple fleet type, John?
The incompetence of Government as well as the incompetence of airline CEO's is most certainly a contributing factor to most aviation issues. Then you can add in the foolishness and greed of some hedge funds and their cohorts who monopolise airports and associated infrastructure and ensure that it is cheaper to buy the airfare tickets than it is to park at the airport for a week.
It will take a huge shift in mindset to fix our aviation problem.
P_666