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More sh*te at Aer Lingus.

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    #32
    Gobán Saor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭Gobán Saor


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    You ARE assuming that the same enlightened thinking from both sides that exists in Southwest occurs in Aer Lingus??
    No. I'm suggesting that it COULD exist. And that the prime responsibility for creating corporate culture obviously rests with management. And that rather than try to create a Southwest type culture, they are ploughing ahead with the time honoured (and failed) strategy of adversarialism and confrontation with staff. What sort of culture does that create? A rigid them and us mindset. Hardly going to win hearts and minds, is it? Which is what is required in a customer focussed business.

    And don't blame the unions. As I said, Southwest is the most heavily unionised airline in the US.


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    #33
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    You are of course dead right!

    Such a culture COULD exist.However it needs someone with balls on both sides to take up the mantle.

    You see,Aer Lingus is just privatised and the safety net of state support has been removed.A lot of people in that company have yet to realise that fact and are ploughing the same auld furrow.

    Aer Lingus could be a great company if the stakeholders just jettisoned the baggage of the past and ,,and ..well got real in 2007.

    What does that mean?

    Well it means that Aer lingus needs to be carrying more passengers on the airplanes and not in the workforce!!
    It means that malingerers and drones need to be weeded out and the stage cleared for those who want to work and earn good money for their labour.
    As long as people who use Aer Lingus as a foundation for their extra mural activities and abuse the system are left to rot the company from the inside its a slow death I'm afraid.
    As long as the Unions look on Dublin Airport as their Rubicon the same scenario applies.
    There is a great future for that Company if it clears out the deadwood and actually works in everybodies interest.

    The choice is yours!!!


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    #34
    Muggy Dev
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭Muggy Dev


    Gobán Saor wrote: »
    Wrong. They did. See the Aer Lingus defence document.

    Link please? Would this be the same document that claimed that the Ryanair bid significantly undervalued the company? If it is then it´s not worth the paper it´s printed on.

    I invite you to comment on what you would do to turn the companies fortunes around in the light of recent results and you suggest that all that´s required is to be nice to the staff.

    Oh dear,oh dear,oh dear!


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    #35
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    God help the poor Gobán if he thinks being 'nice' to the staff will save EI.

    Sort out the absenteeism and the double jobbing and overtime culture ,and maybe you have a chance.


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    #36
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    extract from 'Air letter' this month referring to Aer Lingus.


    "Efforts are continuing to push through staff cost savings as part of the airline’s Programme for Continuous Improvement 2007 (PCI-07), with a recent offer of compensation to staff affected by proposals to bring overtime and rostered duty payments into line with industry levels. The airline earlier imposed a pay freeze until such time as agreement is reached on its cost-cutting plans, and it has now added a recruitment ban in an effort to control payroll expenses. It has also said that it will terminate 137 contract workers in January 2008 unless agreement is reached. The trade unions have hitherto resisted all attempts by the airline to implement cost-cutting measures, which are viewed as critical to the airline’s survival in an increasingly hostile commercial environment dominated by airlines with far lower cost levels."


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