Originally Posted by
Mokshu
I remember three years ago saying it was a poor idea to setup those bases. And as always, poor ideas became nightmares when rolled out by Air France : New European Offer, Provinces Bases, New "not full flat" J bed, etc.
I was hoping for a real change of management with AdJ taking the lead, and when I mean management I mean both strategy and COMEX stakeholders. It seems that people who took bad decisions in the past are still in place though.
Seems so true.
When you think that JCS is still at the helm (although until the summer) with most of the COMEX members who pushed all these poor decisions.
Announcing that some "firing" (I guess "suppression de postes" as the French like to state it) will take place is a bit strange when a new agreement has just been reached with FAs a few weeks ago. The problem is that AdJ did not fight to get the needed productivity gains from FAs. Indeed, there is no "unrest", but the net result is poor, to say the least. So AFKL (and the State) will pay more "firing" indemnities but without addressing the major problem which is high-cost/low-productivity of its staff. As some will quickly point out, other airlines have some problems too. But they try to directly address the fundamental problems rather than turning to gadgets.
IMO AdJ has already given up making fundamental changes and is back to the usual AF recipes of brilliant new ideas that turn sour. Quite disappointing.