tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062806278483377538.post7220082764246992236..comments2024-03-28T13:53:05.219+00:00Comments on PARAPLEXED: FlyDubai, eventually. . .Para Gliderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06615806398448197008noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062806278483377538.post-50924633848146884592012-05-01T13:02:31.736+00:002012-05-01T13:02:31.736+00:00Commercial and ecological arguments are equally st...Commercial and ecological arguments are equally strong (though I'm sure the ecological one wasn't even considered!) But yes, the treatment of customers and their own disempowered staff was grim.<br />(And no, not such an important meeting that it couldn't wait an hour or two :)Para Gliderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06615806398448197008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062806278483377538.post-64166334864589345202012-05-01T07:14:04.940+00:002012-05-01T07:14:04.940+00:00I can see the commercial rationale underlying a de...I can see the commercial rationale underlying a decision to operate one full flight instead of three empty ones. What is inexcusable is the outright lying to those very people who are the airline's sole means of generating income.<br /><br />A meal and an apology might have been nice, and I trust you weren't heading to Dubai to meet a V.V.V.I.P. to secure a multi-billion dollar contract.Grumpy Goathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07944514711900089561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062806278483377538.post-81498192152616410022012-04-29T13:23:49.844+00:002012-04-29T13:23:49.844+00:00What I really dislike is the way these airlines sa...What I really dislike is the way these airlines sacrifice their own staff. The managers who take these decisions are invisible but they leave a junior operative to deliver the bad tidings and face the angry crowd, with no authority to help them in any way. Not nice.Para Gliderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06615806398448197008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062806278483377538.post-11738816497490276302012-04-29T10:32:52.347+00:002012-04-29T10:32:52.347+00:00There was fog on Friday, around 8am, well in my ne...There was fog on Friday, around 8am, well in my neck of the woods, Rashidiya/Mirdiff, but as you guessed planes were still operational!Rupert Neil Bumfreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04460239805603476978noreply@blogger.com