by Saitek » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:06 am
I would like to echo Gary. I am was a pilot there too. I was a Hub Manager and a test pilot as well as holding two other small roles. The CEO (who owns it) fired all the upper management who had dedicated hundreds of hours of free service for him for years. They knew him persoanlly and he is on tour of the world at the moment and had even been staying with some of them. Many had given money to help pay for the running costs and it was all counted as nothing.
Then with no reason at all, he fired them all (In number about 12) the upper management. Then he decided after the uproar following to fire everyone else. Many resigned in protest before he could, me included, and so far more than 40 pilots have left. Although the airline says it has 840 active pilots, in reality the ones that left probably did half the flying.
It has been very upsetting. Livewire Airlines is by far the most advanced VA on the web, but the events of late aught to cause people to shun it.
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