XL Airways

Its been a sad weekend. A lot of friends have lost their jobs, and are wondering how to cope with the next mortgage payment, and the next fuel bill. The papers are full of stories of poor stranded passengers who are angry at something, someone, hoping to blame some invisible evil force. But they will get back from their extended holidays and, if they were typical XL passengers, will return to their lives of handouts, wife beating and whining. Most of them wont know what it is like to lose your livelihood, to lose all certainty and comfort and find yourself staring into the big black hole which is unemployment. Most were born on the social, and live a life of comfort making false claims and drinking cider. For those honest hard workers who have lost their jobs this week, they deserve something more than the incidental requiem that most of the media have given them - people stranded, money owing, big hassle, oh and 1700 on the dole..
And the stories of fuel and economic climate are depressingly inaccurate...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055606/Two-airlines-flames-bankrupt-boss-driving-Bentley.html
It almost seems like they asked me for my comments on this one - fortunately those who know me would know i would not talk to the Daily Mail even on this one. What joy is there in being right? Very little at all... No one will ever be brought to book on this one, it will go down as fuel prices. Tomorrow I'm back to the old office to meet up with some former colleagues for lunch, to help where i can, in whatever way i can.
Its a sad day, lets think of the staff...