If you look ignorant to the news, is vulnerable to the impression that the airline industry is in a really difficult situation, in particular, suffer from high oil prices and global economic crisis and the state definitely needs help. State or parastatal airlines lose their money and are sanitized by taxpayers' money. A beautiful example is Alitalia, Swiss and KLM should be described below, which had to sell AirFrance Netherlands. Whatever I'm doing what I do, my view often flying client is different - the aviation industry is suffering from high prices and global overemployment dullness. Witness today's flight from Amsterdam to Birmingham under the baton of KLM.
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This morning I attended a flight from Amsterdam to Birmingham. Just to illustrate, I would like at the very beginning found that both cities are in the EU (though not in the UK Sengen, but it's just local politics obtuseness) and before arriving in Amsterdam I went through passport control and security in Prague, ie EU Member States and Sengen ... Both checks confiscated about 20 minutes of my time and employed a total of 6 people in Prague.
Shipol Airport - or how the EU makes employment
departure was out of the gate (gate), D29, where I arrived about 80 minutes before the official inaugural time. The gate was open, without any operator and only space for the session was off the security point. So we went through with colleagues inside and sat down. For 10 minutes he reached the ground crew. Specifically, there were six members of the scanner operator, two ladies serving passengers at the gate and ANOTHER bezpečáka designed to passport control. Bottom line, nine people.
When we arrived with about seven other people expelled from the gateway to a public corridor and there was a grotesque situation. Six bezpečáků began to control the gates and waiting areas. After climbing around the knees and seat check the bottom, watching the leaves of flowers in baskets, in their own hands šátrali scanner, etc. In total the procedure took 15 minutes six people, making up 1.5 man-hours that would solve some of the locked door .... huh!
followed by checking incoming passengers to show why the scanner serves 6 people. One sat at the scanner. The second was from a scanner and match things to help people into prepared containers. A third man was inspecting the Lords, who "bleeped" on the frame. The fourth was woman performing the same for the ladies white color. The fifth was the Indian who carried out the same for dark-skinned ladies. A sixth man was a sort of supernumerary, so I assume he was either leading or Reserve. Inspection of the six passengers took an amazing pace because of their almost 45 minutes, or 4.5 man-hours together. The passengers through the airport security point at the entrance and those who arrive at this airport megavelke undergoing scrutiny at the airport. Throughout
gates for a three-member staff sat, looking at the LCD and not doing anything to help us put together another 3 man-hours.
followed boarding, in which one of the ladies checked tickets, the other sat and looked at her and technician checked the passports, which would likely ground crews failed to do, even though they watched with their tickets immediately after it. Six scanner operator watched the process with passion worthy professionals. Boarding process lasted about 20 minutes, allowing us makes a total of three man-hours.
When we add to and underline, we find that the staff needed shipolský total of 12 man-hours. Common sense could one say that in fact sufficient lady who would control the tickets and would not take her an hour. But it would probably require a bit of cooperation within the EU, a bit of rational thinking and the main interest of effective functioning. And I fear that none of this is the EU's own and will not be long ... Therefore it was necessary to spend a total of 11 man-hours for the onset of unnecessary 50 people in a single plane. I dare not imagine what it does in the case of a large airport-type Shipol per month.
Conclusion If you feel that I am too sensitive, I'd like to say that we flew a Boeing 737-400 with capacity of 127 seats, that is, filling about 1 / 3. It would be more than enough for a small Fokker 70 with significantly lower operating costs and save at least one flight attendant. But I understand that such flexibility is again the possibility of KLM's giant size. And why it bothers me when KLM's Holland carrier? Well because they are AirFrance and together the two companies cleverly draining the EU under the guise of various crisis situations, ie their operation is not only partake price tickets, but also paying taxes.
