Originally Posted by
Linebacker35
Branson does care about his employees!! From the British Airways lawsuit in 1993 Branson divided up all of the compensation won amoung the Virgin america employees. Virgin America is NOT bransons company! He does not oversee this operation. He contributed some start up capital and the brand name.
My point is dont blame branson for what other people have done.
Linbacker, first off forgive my grammer. Second, if the company bares his name or brand, it's his company. I don't know about this payout in 1993 so I can't really speak on it. What I can speak on now, is what we don't need: more capacity. At a time when everyone is pounding the consolidation drum, her comes SRB with another LCC driving down wages. All I can say is the THE V MAN SPEAKS FOR ME on this issue. What's really sad is some of you chumps will go fly for that sucker.
Now I admit, he's brilliant and NO I'm not jealous. It was absolutely genious when he did the space flight thingy. I mean, people had loosely heard of the virgin name, but that space flight deeper engrained the virgin name in the psyche of the American mind. I still say **** on him.
As it pertains to me, as it pertains to our pay, as it pertains to this industry, SRB can, well ... I'm too much of a Christian to say what I really want. Suffice it to say, he's not welcome and I hope with fresh blood in Washington that recognizes the slippage of the middle class, we can keep him out. It's bad enough W let communist countries fly our cargo! I say keep them all out. I mean, come on. We already outsourced all the good paying manufacturing jobs. Pretty soon, we won't be able to move the freight that comes from china or their freight. The call signs will be All Nippon, Singapore Air, Air China ...
Tom
forgive the typos gents