quote:Originally posted by Scrooge
So explain to me, you have someone with the pockets of SRB, why not buy the airline and sell off the slots ? and walk away with a few aircraft and money in the bank ?
You have 4,500 staff to pay redundancy to
You have aircraft to sell at probably below book price
You have to sell slots in a depressed market, and a glut of them
You suffer the bad publicity
You spend all your management time on a non core activity
You have to cancel people's flights, their holidays, their trips to dying relatives
You have to run the airline at a huge loss (est. 200m this year on 1bn sales) until you manage all of the above
Boy, I'd give it the widest berth possible!
There's a plane at JFK, to fly you back from far away
all those dark and frantic transatlantic miles