Updated: Air Malta special events 'inappropriate' - ALPA
Airline asks association to reconsider its demands
Now that ALPA was becoming sensitive to Air Malta's financial situation, it should reconsider its demands to the company and bring them in line with the situation, Air Malta said this morning.
It was replying to a statement issued earlier today by the Airline Pilots Association, which directed its members not to participate in special events to celebrate the rebranding of the airline and unveiling of its new livery.
ALPA said these events were highly inappropriate in the airline’s current financial situation. It said invitations to this “once in a lifetime experience” “with plenty to drink and eat” were issued to all Air Malta employees with another event planned for stakeholders and business partners.
The funds spent on these events, ALPA said, could have been put to better and more productive use.
ALPA said it had been promised that it would be consulted and involved in the airline’s restructuring process.
“The rebranding process with all its substantial costs was never mentioned in the Steering Committee, and once again ALPA was not consulted or involved in this matter.
“ALPA and all its members look forward to attending such events when the company returns to profitability and is in a better and more stable financial situation,” it said.
In a reply, Air Malta said it took note of ALPA’s stand with regards to the airline's rebranding.
"While expressing its disappointment that once again the executive committee of the union has failed to rise above the canopy and look at the big picture it is pleased to note that the same executive is finally becoming more sensitive to the precarious financial situation of the Company.
"Air Malta now expects ALPA to reconsider its demands made to the company as part of its discussions and bring them more in line with the situation currently at hand with a view to ensure that Air Malta returns to profitability and a more stable financial situation."
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Mark Cassar
Jul 30th 2012, 00:04
Very interesting management concept. Increasing out-lay costs and spending money (have the re-branding costs been published?) to increase turn-over and profits, in the very hope that the re-branding will increase sales through reinventing Airmalta. Is that the bigger picture? However the marketing strategies need to be backed up by operational and logistical strategies too. Let's hope for all that those at the helm are well versed in strategy.
Lino Busuttil
Jul 29th 2012, 14:24
It's amazing how new Management just kept the same old performance of their predecessors and still feel they need to party. Is there no shame left?
30 million loss a year with no visible dent at it! Break even next year yeah tell that to th marines!
Ronnie Callus
Jul 29th 2012, 09:02
One wonders whether this party is being orchestrated before the election time so that Gonzipn show us what he has done to AirMalta. The answer is quite easy - MILKED.
Eddy Privitera
Jul 28th 2012, 18:47
Se jerggu jonfqu eluf ta' ewros biex jaghmlu festin iehor biex qishom l-Air Malta ghamilha GonziPN !
IL-PN U GONZIPN KISSRUHA L-AIR MALTA. U ISSA TAPARSI JRIDU L-POPLU JEMMEN LI HUMA FEJQUHA META KIENU HUMA LI KWAZI QATLUHA GHALKOLLOX !!!!!!!!!!
Rocco Camilleri
Jul 28th 2012, 19:24
@ Eddy Privitera:
Fejquha ???? Fejquha meta din ghadha infaxxata. Noqghodu attenti ghax bhal tat-Drydocks ha tispicca din, l-ewwel hafna tifhir u tidliek biz-zejt jew xaham ( ghidu li tridu) lil Haddiema sa anke bil-kitba tawilhom biex isserhu rashom mix-xoghol, imbaghad spiccaw barra bis-CEO barrani li qabdu jiehu hsieb jahrab u alla jbierek ghadu mitluf, qiesu tela fil-qamar. Thallux it-tlelliex jaljinghakom ja' Haddiema meta dawn se' jonfqu mill-flus li mghandhomx li jfisser li se'nkomplu nkabbru d-dejn. Figuri (numri) jafu jtuna imma Accounts jidhru li ma' jafhux. Din bhall tar-Restaurants meta jigu jghidulna li jkunu mimlijin. Biss mimlijin skond biex, ghax jekk huma studenti dawn ta' studenti jkollhom fil-butt. Nahseb kulhadd ghandu tfal !! sa' kemm ma' jkunux gejjien minn ta' xi ras kbira. Mela il-KWALITA TODD u mhux il-KWANTITA. Staqsu lil tar-Restaurants xi jhallulhom fil-butt ( ghax dawn sa' pasta jew pizza u flixkun luminati jiffilhu jaffordjaw). Hemm bzonn nghamlu s-sommom sura ta' nies jekk nafu !!!!! u mhux inharsu lejn il-hanut mimli.
Peter Murray
Jul 28th 2012, 18:11
Austerity-what austerity?As when spending tax-payers money opulent extravagence rules!
A Camilleri
Jul 28th 2012, 18:09
Please, please don't let them take the Maltese cross from the tail fin if it is to have new livery!!!! That cross touches so many hearts and means so much to Malta
Rocco Camilleri
Jul 28th 2012, 17:46
I don't feel it's appropiate to do such a party, when the pie has not yet been cooked. One may suggests that as a cpmpliment towards the remaining employees, Mr.Davies and others well paid, make good themselves for the party.
Ronnie Callus
Jul 28th 2012, 17:07
Well said ALPA, don't make part of this invention by the new Management. AirMalta for sure is not in a state to celebrate something which has not cooked yet and when it has all those loses.
cesco di luigi
Jul 28th 2012, 16:54
Does anyone rememeber the BRAND MALTA exercise of some yers ago and the SMART MALTA branding of not too long ago!! As anybody in marketing will tell you, it's no use spending on branding UNLESS you have the product to match...But then of course spending lots of money does have its advantages to some...
cesco di luigi
Jul 28th 2012, 16:46
New CEO and cronies at excessive salaries....consultants costing millions...new livery...new branding Although maltese corss has been around centuries)...new luxurious premises although everyone knows that in the world of computing and on-line booking this is not necessary......Sounds like a company that's making a fortune to me.....but I must be stupid...that's what I though when they bought those useless airlines some years ago too...... If there ever was a cow that was milked dry then it must be AirMalta
GL Calleja
Jul 28th 2012, 18:03
Yes, they just scored a175,000,000 Million euro bail out at the expense of the Maltese TAX PAYER. Are we all CWIEC to see what is going on? What does the GWU have to say? Are they boycotting along with ALPA?
D. A . Agius
Jul 28th 2012, 16:37
One needs to remind himself that executive and some senior officers may shift their job location from one place to the others, possibly even in different sectors.
Pilots don't and probably, that's why they would be more than ever interested in an airline that survives in the long run, and not just for the next one or two years!
D Borg
Jul 28th 2012, 16:16
Those 'leading' AirMalta, should better review the pay packages they are paying themselves first.
ALPA had pin pointed the operational deficiencies that needed to be addressed - and they did not charge a penny for that.
Peter Cagney
Jul 28th 2012, 16:51
and review downwards pilots salaries and perks... once at it!
A Vella
Jul 28th 2012, 17:34
To Peter Cagney - Sounds like a case of Sour Grapes, maybe you should become a pilot since you seem so mesmerized by the wages.
While at it why not pay the pilots minimum wages - I for one would certainly not want someone earning peanuts to trust my life and fly me around.......if you pay peanuts guess what you'll get....
GL Calleja
Jul 28th 2012, 18:29
Mr Borg and Mr Cagney, maybe on your next flight on Air Malta you would like me to sit in that cockpit and maneuver that airplane? I do carry a drivers license.
anthony sultana
Jul 28th 2012, 15:29
The Air Malta don"t stand a chance to recover,this problem of the empty planes flying around started long time ago, as soon as it start operating.I use to fly on air malta,they use to charge me double, when I asked why?I was told because the high seoson,that was just an excuse, because the planes was always half full.Air Malta is finish.
Kleaven Maniscalco
Jul 28th 2012, 16:01
Well you think that high season is an excuse Mr. Sultana. I just bought a ticket for next monday with ryanair. Luton - Malta Malta-Luton. That cost me 340 euro. And for that price is without baggage. Add a 20 kgs baggage like air malta allows and that is another 90 euro for both ways. And we all know how scrappy ryan air is.
J Galea
Jul 28th 2012, 14:48
Airmalta does not need rebranding or lavish parties. It needs new prices. Customers are loyal but will not wait forever.
GL Calleja
Jul 28th 2012, 14:02
Where is the sacrifice in giving lavish parties like these especially for an airline which came very close to bankruptcy? So first Mr Davies plans to spend over 55,000,000Million euros to build new plush offices to accommodate himself and his Merry Men, now he feels confident enough to spend thousands of euros on a lavish party to commemorate the Rebranding of Air Malta. In the meantime the Tax Payer is shelling out 200,000,000Million euros to bail out the troubled Air Malta. Maybe Mr Davies and his Merry men forgot that they have a very hard road ahead of them and it is way to early to start celebrating unless they know something we don't know. Where are they going to get the money to replace the aging fleet? Leasing new aircraft will cost millions of euros every year and nobody knows that more than the pilots who fly these airlines. Mr Davies has to stop being so free with the Tax Payer's money. I agree with ALPA to stay away from such lavish and such expensive celebrations and I encourage the other Unions to do the same. The least you could have done Mr Davies, is for Air Malta to start showing some real profits and that will give you and your Merry Men something to celebrate. Putting the cart before the horse is no way to run an airline.
Barney Camilleri
Jul 28th 2012, 14:34
GL Calleja
You beat me to it, because that is exactly my thinking that I meant to write. At least you gave me a chance for one line: 'Only in Malta'.
Anthony Agius
Jul 28th 2012, 16:55
As usual, workers asked to make sacrifices while management have a ball with the blessings of the minister!
Peter Cagney
Jul 28th 2012, 16:59
What lavish party?
I think you're confusing with ALPA's members lavish lifestyle with a 90,000euro a year salary. haha
What 55million offices?
Not even parliament is costing that much! Check your info
GL Calleja
Jul 28th 2012, 18:24
Mr Cagney, maybe you should check your own figures because that is how much the land, the construction of this new building and to furnish all the offices with new equipment is going to cost. But no problem because Air Malta managed to convince the Government to buy their own land for 55,000,000 Millions euros. Since the Government already owns Air Malta and all it's assets the Government already owns that piece of land for which they are paying 55,000,000 Million euros. Let me make it very simple for you. The land which Air Malta owns is estimated at 55,000,000 Million euros. Air Malta is selling the land to the Government, who already owns Air Malta and all its' assets, they call that creative financing or in plain terms scamming. Maybe you can consult with our Finance Minister or Mr Davies and maybe they can explain the situation a bit better. Mr Cagney, because someone called us Cwiec, it does not mean we are.
Anthony Agius
Jul 29th 2012, 08:00
I get the feeling Mr Cagney wanted to be a pilot when he was younger but never passed any of his tests! Sour grapes Peter? What is this obsession of yours with pilot wages? Think you can trace some of your school colleagues ( the ones that made it ) and convince them to come here and work for less? Go for it and make us taxpayers happy. Alternatively contact a reputable pilot recruitment agency and get us a quote. I look forward to find out how much you are going to save us in wages.
Anthony Agius
Jul 29th 2012, 19:07
Did I hit the nail on the head Cagney?
A Caruana
Jul 28th 2012, 13:52
Somebody had better see to the racket that goes on at AirMalta, especially those with 'the power' regarding shift details, where relatives of 'someone' seem to get all the juicy shifts, whereas those with no relative on board get lumped with thwe lousy shifts. Shifts and roster planning seem dilettante at their worst and it seems that it is who you know and not what you know that guarantees you a cushy work schedule! If AirMalta really wanted to be fair it would have an alternating shift and roster system whereby all employees would have their work distributed fairly. Despite the change in top management, this state of affairs has been going on too long at AirMalta! Many employees are too scared to complain for fear that their job will be next on the chopping board.
GL Calleja
Jul 28th 2012, 15:18
That is one of the problems when an airline is owned and run by the government. Politics remain in full force and very effective at Air Malta, it was like that from the beginning. That is why Air Malta must be privatized if it is to survive. There is no other way because the government has no business running a business they know nothing about. All the government can do is supply the money, and for that they are gullible masters.
Francesca Abela
Jul 28th 2012, 21:34
I agree with you 100 per cent, funnily enough AirMalta made several employees redundant because they were considered as excess workers. Then the same Airline employs other staff, most of whom is related to some of the staff that has remained, a case in point - a whole family is employed at AirMalta, or the 2 children of a senior employee were both employed at the same time. Funny coincidence if you ask me. With such policies in place of nepotisim it's no wonder that AirMalta is going downhill by the minute.
m. borg (slm)
Jul 28th 2012, 12:26
Bad habits die hard no wonder gonzi and cohorts do not want to relenquish power until the very end.
Everybody loves a party especially if it is paid for by others in this case with the people's tax money.
Dante missed one level of Hades in his "Divine Comendy" , that reserved for holier-than-thou rightist politicians.
Mr Alex Aquilina
Jul 28th 2012, 12:21
My first option when flying is always Air Malta and I sincerely hope that the airline can be saved. It is high time the politicians get their hands off Air Malta - and everything else which is not political - and really let the company move to survival. I think the Air Malta pilots have shown, and continue to show, that they are very sensitive to the precarious financial situation of the Company. If they were not, they would have packed and gone to other airlines a long time ago. I am sure many other airlines would gladly grab experienced pilots and offer them highly superior salaries to what Air Malta pays them.
Air Malta is financially a sunken ship but its operating reputation is quite good. Rebranding is verrrry expensive and will not really help the company with its problems. Wining and dining is also expensive and is best left to those who can afford it as it will not impress anybody. The company does not have money to splash around, at least not until it returns to profitability. The pilots demands have not always been justified but this time they cannot be faulted.
Mario P. Sciberras
Jul 28th 2012, 12:15
Historians of economic thought credit Plato (born appx 2400 years ago), primarily on account of arguments advanced in his Republic, as an early proponent of the division of labor. ALPA chief/s must understand that companies are run on this principle. Flight attendants do the attending, the pilots do the flying, the management do the managing, the directors do the directing and the government/shareholders do the monitoring/controlling and set policy. So please ALPA, stick to your job, fly and let other people to get on with it.
A Vella
Jul 28th 2012, 14:14
Air Malta pilots do the Flying = Safe Landings
Air Malta Flight Attendants do attending = Passengers happy
Air Malta Management/Directors do managing/directing = 30 Million loss and a party to celebrate
Now do your maths and go tell that to Plato
cesco di luigi
Jul 28th 2012, 16:51
YES but keep in mind that if the pilot goes wrong the plane crashes with all on board...BUT if the CEO MISMANAGE all they do is keep raking in the tax-payers money!!! So we all know on whose shoulders the burden lies....and at Air Malta, IT'S NOT on management.
Yours
SOCRATES
Peter Cagney
Jul 28th 2012, 17:02
ALPA pilots are good at providing a safe flight fultsop
Leave managment up to good managers. Remember drydock where employees directed the shipyards! What happened?
cesco di luigi
Jul 28th 2012, 17:45
Dear Cagney
Good management...lavish parties..."rebranding" (of the old Maltese cross).... pull the other one please...! The pilots can read between the lines... they kow whta new managment is up too...and by the way for some of the new managment its was party time from Day 1!!!
Mario P. Sciberras
Jul 29th 2012, 09:18
@Mr A Vella.
Is it the job of the pilots to monitor the performance of management or is it the board of directors and the government who are/should be doing this?
Peter Cagney
Jul 28th 2012, 12:12
Unbelievable!
ALPA has finally realised that Air Malta has financial problems.
Their exorbitant salary increases throughout the years was one of the factors that have crippled the airline.
At last they are realising that they are unsustainable.
Shawn Abela
Jul 28th 2012, 14:57
Alpa had long known of the financial problems.
You seem to be implying high wages when in reality wages are only 36% of the issue - way below the industry standard.
Why don't you make better and more valid statements?
Peter Cagney
Jul 28th 2012, 16:50
Are you a pilot who is being paid over 90,000 euros a year? Information tabled in the Maltese parliament shows that.
Get real and don't compare your wages with other airlines. No one in Malta compares his salary with the 'industry standard' others we will all be rich!
Anthony Agius
Jul 28th 2012, 16:59
Ryanair pays its pilots more than Airmalta and yet makes a substantial profit! Inform yourself mr cagney
Peter Cagney
Jul 28th 2012, 20:19
Compare apples with apples.
Salaries in Malta are lower here than in Europe.
If someone want a higher salary for his job he should move out of the island not compare it with his foreign counterparts.
Anthony Agius
Jul 29th 2012, 07:49
Compare apples with apples indeed Mr Cagney! There are currently 3 ex airmalta pilots working for Ryanair and based in Malta. Again I kindly ask you to inform yourself before you write here.
Stephen Grech
Jul 29th 2012, 11:18
Gej bit-tuffieh Squadron Leader Cagney.:)
May I ask your profession, wage bracket and the amount of tax you pay Mr.Cagney?
j brincat
Jul 28th 2012, 12:05
Rebranding is a VERY costly exercise,.
Is the timing right considering the precarious state that Air Malta has found itself in?
Who has come out this brain wave?
Could be that this part of the ribbon cutting exercise which will become more frequent as time wears on (for the final countdown)!
Meanwhile, the employees (despite the job guarantee given in writing by GoinziPN) have been left in the lurch!
(jb)
(jb)
Toni Borg
Jul 28th 2012, 11:58
So Air Malta is now saying there is money available to spend on parties but no money to give to pilots!!!
That's cool
Joseph Calleja
Jul 28th 2012, 11:40
Some people seem that they never learn how to get their priorities right. It is a pity that we have to bear the consequencies of their folly. I wonder how they manage their accounts!!!
Joseph Cauchi Senior
Jul 28th 2012, 11:15
Or perhaps, the excessive remunerations paid to ‘certain’ captains and pilots, are also not APPROPRIATE to the present circumstances too; who knows!
JC.
M. Cachia
Jul 28th 2012, 16:56
Mr. Cauchi Senior, you should know that Air Malta Pilots' salaries are well below industry standards, as lower as 36%.
You should also familiarize yourself with the term supply and demand! The airline pilot industry is based on such a principle! One has to only look at the salaries being offered in ASIA at this moment to have an idea what are we talking about!
Next time round, perhaps when you re-incarnate yourself you should train to become a pilot! Join the club & fun!
Andrew Micallef
Jul 28th 2012, 10:48
I don't agree. I think it's great they're rebranding so they can make a fresh start.
Charles Micallef
Jul 28th 2012, 12:04
Air Malta had so many fresh starts over the past 25 years and see where they all brought it... to its knees!
Toni Borg
Jul 28th 2012, 12:22
Rebranding is good....it's throwing parties that ALPA is contesting.
Air Malta can spend the money better by placing a number of online adverts to market its rebranding program to the world at large.
m. borg (slm)
Jul 28th 2012, 12:27
They rebranded AirMalta in1988 and see where AirMalta ended.
It is not the rapping that maters but the material things are made of do.
Ronnie Callus
Jul 28th 2012, 16:43
@ Charles Micallef:
Halliek milli tarafhom mill-ewwel vers Sur.Micallef, suppost kulhadd jaqbel li l-ewwel il-PAPPA imbaghad lim-PAPPA' u mhux bil-maqlub. Jaqaw min qed immexxi issa jrid imexxi biex xinxilli, noghodu l-flieles qabel ifaqqsu??? Nahseb zgur li mhux il-waqt li jintefqu flus li ghad maghandniex, ghax dejn izzied u mhux proffitti. Nixtieq nistaqsi lis- CEO il-Gdid ta'; l-Airmalta u lil Tonio Fenech jekk it-telf ta' l-AirMalta naqasx ghax sar aktar gar ta' passigieri jew minhabba l-BEJGH TA' L-ASSI ( propjeta) ta' l-Airmalta ghax jekk hu ta' l-ahhar dan il-qliegh darba se' jsir u ma' jghamel sens ta' xejn hlief fil-kotba ta' l-Accounts ghall konvinjenza. Hemm bzonn inkunu cari man-nies biex aktar inkunu kredibli.
Ronnie Callus
Jul 28th 2012, 16:52
@ Andrew Micallef:
What a fresh start ?? Do you mean that Airmalta commenced now ? or by having one of its aircraft with a Maltese scene painted on its body colourish brown. It could have been more vivid . One surely can say that AirMalta's fresh start commenced when the PN took over it because it always went downhill like 'Ghasafar tac-comb' as it were called in its inception. One has to be sincere when commenting although everyone has the right to comment.
Charles Micallef
Jul 28th 2012, 10:34
Air Malt'a should adopt a motto on the lines of "public money no problem"
Alan Cordina
Jul 28th 2012, 11:38
Tarafkom mill- ewwel sentenza !! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha !!
GL Calleja
Jul 28th 2012, 13:36
That is how it has been all along.
Charles Micallef
Jul 28th 2012, 16:00
@Alan Cordina,
The true facts hurts, no wonder you have the need to capitalise on anything as minor as a misprint, shows have low you have sunk!!!
Ronnie Callus
Jul 28th 2012, 17:20
@ Charles Micallef:
Apologize, my comment should have been addressed to ALAN CORDINA ( Ha Ha Ha ----Ha !! )
Victor Vella
Jul 28th 2012, 10:26
Air Malta employees: Beware of the hungry dogs and wolves roaming around. This time not with hungry letters to bait your votes, but with lavish party organized by Davies & Co. Union pilots well done. You only deserve your salt.
C. Bonnici
Jul 28th 2012, 10:25
Well, I don't see how such a function would interfere with Air Malta's new goals. Nonetheless, ALPA's claims indicate that ALPA's being left out on matters of management. On the one hand, pilots must realise that their expertise is in piloting. On the other, the management should probably realise how professional Air Malta pilots have always been, and reward this, partly by taking ALPA's suggestions into serious consideration, and partly by giving them the recognition they deserve, for having ALWAYS been so professional. Personally, I enjoy flying with Air Malta, so well done to everyone who's working for the company's survival, including management, pilots, flightcrew, and everyone else. Including the Maltese tax payers, of course.
Victor Vella
Jul 28th 2012, 10:09
What is this re-branding? It means that now since Air Malta is managed by Davies and CO has changed its image? This is all cheap marketing to try to promote its employer GonziPN so that Davies & Co can give a big thank you for the GonziPN regime by earning more then 2 millions euros from the cwiec Maltin taxpayers. How can a company in restructuring process that is bankrupt and making losses of millions of euros year after year for the last 10 years can make `lavish` parties? This is all to whitewash the minds of Air Malta employees so that next time can swallow the bait this time not of letters filled with garbish of GonziPN illusions, but to go for a party to eat this time the rubbish left by the wolves and hungry dogs. Where is the GWU? Or now it is satisfied that it was the only union where more than 500 of its members were shed off with the worst conditions from the other 2 unions. Only the pilots union tries to to air grievances at Air Malta so that at least if something is left the pilots can rightly ask for it as they always try to give advices and cooperate to make the company less vulnerable from the roaming hungry dogs. People at Air Malta wants steady jobs and to be well paid not just 5€ an hour and working hours that are humane. This party is only as an advertisement for the political Gonzi PN campaign to earn some cheap votes for the coming elections.
Ronnie Callus
Jul 28th 2012, 17:02
@ Victor Vella:
Well said Victor. This is the same as what happened to the Drydocks employees. First Dr.Gonzi praised the workers work with regards to build ships used in Gozo channel and others together with ship repairs in time and even before the contracting time and then he FIRED THEM OUT. May be he is moving on the same lines or the party lines spending which do not have. The RESULTING EQUATION equals ' MORE DEBT' MORE DEFICT. Poor Maths
Austin grech
Jul 28th 2012, 10:06
what a shame. they just want to spend the money as fast as they can before an election. Hope there would leave some of it for the company to actually operate. I agree with alpa on the no show. other unions rep. should follow along with opposition political partys.
VINCENT WILLIAMS
Jul 28th 2012, 09:56
For the Nationalists it was always first 'l-umpappa' ( band marching for propaganda ) and than 'il-pappa' ( the bread )!! And GonziPartitNegattiv is the most PN ( Partit Negattiv ) Administration that knows best how to do it.
Lawrence Fenech
Jul 28th 2012, 09:54
Why dosen't Mr Davies and his CEO's pay for the events out of their pockets which they filled to the brim with our taxes. Afterall, he has been boasting all along that everything is going fine and that we have not made any profits but losing less. Fejn hu Gonzi jew issa irridu induru fuq Jeffrey biex niehdu ragun.
Frank Massa
Jul 28th 2012, 16:45
Why dont you stop politicizing Air Malta once and for all. AirMalta does not belong to either political party or Government full stop!!!
Ronnie Callus
Jul 28th 2012, 17:37
@ Lawrence Fenech:
Well said Lawrence, thats what 'ALPA' should suggest to Mr.DAVIES and his colleagues nbecause they are being paid pretty well. The Party which they want to give to the employees (which remained) does not hurt our ECONOMY and for sure we all agree. Do we really want to DECREASE our DEBTS / Deficits or we are working the other way round ??? or ' Money no PROBLEM' as have been to other bailed countries. It's a SHAME at this present situation to organize such a party from the PEOPLES MONEY - TAXES. For sure this is going to be an added burden on AIRMALTA. POSSIBLY the Government is going to accept this ???????
Joseph Grima
Jul 28th 2012, 09:50
celebrations in an attempt to paper over the crass incompetence that has brought Air Malta to its knees under PN adminisitartions. Well done ALPA.. Professionals at Air Malta should wash their hands of such diversionary tactics.
John Attard
Jul 28th 2012, 09:42
What a silly manner to come to the limelight? ALPA. Should insist on the millions that went to waste not on a few pounds and pennies. If ALPA are supporting the airline, I'm sure they are, they should participate wholeheartedly. Accepting the realities of life has become so difficult for the staunch headed. Let s cool it a bit and move on handin hand.....this is not a good time to have enemies within Air Malta
Sarah Grech (Zebbug)
Jul 28th 2012, 10:06
The typical 'money no problem' mentality. Instead of applauding ALPA for looking after the 'few pounds and pennies' as you put it, you encourage them to participate wholeheartedly in wasting more money.
And about the millions that went to waste, why don't you ask RCC and Co. about them? They where the ones to agree upon the purchasing of the RJ70s which ended up putting Air Malta in misery.
Oh, and by the way, the 'few pounds and pennies' of this 'once in a lifetime experience' could amount to thousands of euro. Jewilla qed tahseb li dan xi festin ta xi birthday party?
John Attard
Jul 28th 2012, 12:56
@sarah Grech
Cannot understand the mentality. ALPA know that anything like this gets them nowhere. Where was ALPA when the RJ s were purchased.......did you hear a noise then......no because they had other priorities then.....they would not care if the deal was good or bad as long as they flew them and made a bomb.......go on maybe ALPA can tell us cumulatively what pilots earned in those years eh.......go on.......
And today they are crying out loud and want to be involved to the deep end......I wonder why...?or no wonder
R. Cilia
Jul 28th 2012, 09:41
I agree with ALPA. Look after the pennies and the pound will look after itself, after all the taxpayer is forking out millions of euros to save this company!
John Attard
Jul 28th 2012, 13:00
In the process these pilots keep making a bomb.......go on continue to support those who were bright enough so many years ago and never said a word.. Now they are aware that their hefty salary could be in the balance so yes they moan and moan.......truly a case of charity begins at home and stays at home.........and by chance....did you know that for so many years pilots were paid same hours in winter and summer with plenty of additional flight time in summer and paid for that too."..but in winter they still took never ending pays......the truth hurts...so whatever they say i, not going to a lunch or rebranding event is like looking at someone else's faults and forgetting your own.....pitiful from these bright guys
Peter Murray
Jul 28th 2012, 09:24
On another point.I am sure that ALPA would not "have instructed all its members not to participate" as they would not have the right to act in such a totalitarian manner for one thing,but that it would have suggested to its members that the union hierarchy object to attending such a costly function for the rationale as shown! can the Times provide proof of this instruction?
Andrew Agius
Jul 28th 2012, 09:13
Does the invitation actually contain the phrase "“with plenty to drink and eat”?
Ha ha, will they have pass the parcel and Peppa Pig?
Peter Murray
Jul 28th 2012, 09:08
The funds spent on remuneration for the inept and incomptetent management (sic)and board of directors at Air Malta -along with so-called "consultants" fees -could also have been put " to better and more productive use",I would argue.
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