Comments on: Air Labour

By: Mina

Mina — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:21:44 +0000

http://www.maltastar.com/UserFiles/image/01.Election2013/Election-PN/pn_billboard_faces1.jpg

Daphne, a picture speaks a thousand words!

By: Adrian Grech

Adrian Grech — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:02:31 +0000

I am also a Purser at Air Malta and I joined the airline in 1988 under PN administration. Does this make you feel any better? Seeing this makes me feel even more disgusted. I usually hate reading these petty blogs and portals which simply instigate hatred however I cannot help but vent my frustration and condemn these personal attacks on employees like Terence who is a dedicated Purser and a close and dear friend of mine. This hatred and this divide is surely unwelcomed and is something the PN have condemned in the past. Do we ever learn? Can we live on this rock in a civic manner? Without any hesitation I can vouch that Terence is a professional at his job. Who are you to dispose of people who work hard to earn a living and maintain a decent life and standards for their family? Why are you surprised that he is still there? What are you trying to imply? Terence is an asset to the airline. Is this the tolerance PN have been preaching? And why Air Labour? Do we want this divide? Furthermore all PN and PL employees worked very hard to keep the company afloat during the turbulent years (past and present) and all employees had to sacrifice a lot, as a consequence of bad politics which lead to bad management which developed a bankrupt company. Yes, the National airline, Air Malta, belongs to us Maltese and is the pride and jewel serving these beautiful islands. If this hatred is what the PN is supporting then I very well know what to do with my vote!! This campaign has been turned into a negative and dirty process and the show seems to go on and on. Thanks Ms. Caruana Galizia. You may be an eye opener……. and to the bloggers who attacked Terence without even getting their facts right, google this and get a life “Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens”, Friedrich Schiller.

[Daphne – I can’t bear people who function like gangs. Just because your mate Terence came up for criticism, you don’t have to write in to stick up for him. How about he writes in to stick up for himself, and justify his stupid behaviour on Facebook? If he’s been with Air Malta for 26 years, that would make him in his late 40s. Should a man that age be doing things like that? If he worked for some other airline, he would be given a warning. You shouldn’t mix your employer’s business with politics because it annoys YOUR CLIENTS. Remember those things – clients? I am one of them – a regular Air Malta customer, as many of your workmates know. I take exception to this kind of behaviour. It is actually enough to make me use another airline when I can – at least on another airline, I will know for sure that there aren’t any Mintoffjani stewards spying on me and logging information as to where I’m going and who I’m sitting with. Maybe these things don’t occur to you. But they should. Every time I’m reminded by people like your mate Terence just how many hodor there are working for Air Malta, I fly Lufthansa or Alitalia, to know that nobody’s leaking anything to Maltastar. I’m not saying he did, but it’s been done.]

By: tal-misthija

tal-misthija — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:30:32 +0000

In reply to Beauty and the Beef. L-aqwa li josephmuscatdotcom issuq waqt li jitkellem fuq il-mobajl, x' ezempju.

By: joseph borg giuliano

joseph borg giuliano — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 03:04:30 +0000

I also work at AirMalta as a cabin crew. First of all for all those who wrote that we should be thankful to the government as he kept AirMalta going, I would like to reply that AirMalta is on the verge of bankruptcy as a result of the bad decisions the management took not as a result of her employees. Secondly I started work with AirMalta in 1994 when the PN governed Malta so I must be one of the MANY blue eyed boys employed under the Joe Tabone regime. Last but not least Terrence is an asset to the company and the best colleague one could dream of.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:59:37 +0000

For those who have doubts about the Airmalta plane, the photo is crudely photoshopped.

By: Ivan Mallia

Ivan Mallia — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:04:23 +0000

I was also employed in 1987 with our national airline and many staunch nationalists were also employed during that year , I worked with Airmalta for 22 years and that summer was the busiest summer ever ! Both Jackie and Terence were outstanding at Airmalta so much so that Terence was promoted to Inflight Manager and is greatly appreciated by ALL his colleagues! Jackie chose to leave Airmalta and use her talents with great success on TV and has never used hate as her driving force !

[Daphne: ‘Jackie has never used hate as her driving force’. Right, that would be why she’s on Super One, then. And it would also be why she’s an ardent admirer of Mr Mintoff, the natural successor of Mahatma Gandhi.]

By: J.Aquilina

J.Aquilina — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:39:11 +0000

In reply to jacqueline.

Excuse me, Jacqueline, but whose decision was it to superimpose the slogan ‘Malta taghna lkoll’ on one of KM’s newly-branded aircraft?

Who decided that it’s wise, when employed with a public corporation, to flaunt your ideas and beliefs in the public foray, like this?

Would these people be behaving like this if they were not absolutely sure that Labour will win the next elections?

And isn’t it ironic that most of the people who were employed by KM on the eve of the 1987 elections have been retained by the company and have survived two corporate downsizing exercises?

Whereas others (whose beliefs are rarely flaunted so publicly – out of fear of falling out of grace with certain chairmen’s ‘widnejn’) – were all eventually laid off?

By: Marianne

Marianne — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:06:26 +0000

I was one of those 8,000 that you are mentioning ,that according to some of you got their job thanks to a minister. At the time I did not even know who these guys were!!!! I was never a political fanatic and i still have the same feelings. So please stop generalizing and start appreciating the wonderful job these people are doing,nothwithstanding they are constantly treatened that the airline is going bankrupt!!!

By: jacqueline

jacqueline — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:45:00 +0000

Wish you all a peaceful night :)

By: xmun

xmun — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:40:05 +0000

Terence is Gino Cauchi’s old buddy, thay have been great friends since childhood