@Maichblack, that is for sure. Some guys are too thick to differentiate between Capital Markets and Fish Market especially if they did not finish primary school but progressed to be lecturers and professors through nepotism and cronism.

No!!!

KQ's core function is to airlift people and goods from one place to another.

Selling tickets is a support function... and it can be outsourced easily.

My 2 cents, is that it's easy to shout, "fire them all" and act all business savy and also state that this is capitalism and RAO should not impose himself (even though thats why we have politicians).
whichever way this ends ups, bottom line is families will be affected. (shareholders and/or workers, some more adverse than others.
Corporate is not socialism and this very clear, however, corporates need to exercise restraint when dealing with its workers...in actually KQ might not have the same leeway in sending home workers in it's foreign offices as that afforded back here in Kenya.

KQ's retrenchment logic appears flawed. Although RAO is also hopeless in giving management of publicly owned and listed company directions. He can only do so through Gk board representatives or apply political pressure by making relevant noise which may tempt management to reconsider. Directing is out of place.

What I find flawed is KQ retrenching and yet they took in shareholder capital to fund an expansion programme. I surely hope they are retrenching not needed skills as opposed to old staff on the payroll. If only RAO took on the board from this angle especially after government committed more money, then he would have my support.

Interesting emirates has airline staff of 251 per aircraft on the fleet, yet KQ has 151 staff / aircraft. Simplistically one would argue KQ is understaffed or will be severely understaffed if it opens all these destination. Then Management should be telling us they have skills they don't need and will not need in the near future. Otherwise I can only see witch hunting of Unionisable staff for last year's strike. What austerity measures have been undertaken over the past 12 months, they surely can't hid behind profit declines to victimize union officials or staff in the Union. I thought management told investors profits declined because of oil prices and European crisis. Why should ordinary staff pay for these business cycle events, why couldn't the board negate the 24% pay hike to senior directors. What have they done about the soaring hotel bills to the two hotels on Msa road which operate at occupancy levels of up to 105% courtesy of KQ's operational messes. The problem is KQ strategy for flying around africa using long haul set up is on most routes loss making. So even if there is growth one can argue they are buying growth. Get a low cost solution to fly to africa and don't become Vasco da gama airlines trying to fly where it doesn't make business sense all in the name of expansion!

thats a fallacy of composition.
FYI- Kq has gone ahead with the layoffs......