It's all part of the big picture. If you live in a "prosperous" 1st world
country, companies are continually pressed to find cheaper ways to run the
business, and improve returns. One day, real soon, most large companies will
just be fronts for 3rd world employment agencies. Once they've exhausted all
other profit-making options, the price for the company will drop in
correspondence to the profit making, and will be picked off by other
countries. It's all about the economic impossibility of perpetual growth,
and is basically jus "borrowing from Peter to pay Paul".

As long as there are differing standards of living, this will go on, in all
industries...


"thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:2tksmbF1udp8dU1@uni-berlin.de...
> I flew from Osaka (Kansai) to Sydney last week, on a Japan Airlines
ticket.
> Was most disappointed to learn that whilst it was still listed as a JAL
> flight, it was in fact operated by JALways, a JAL Group company
(subsidiary,
> but operated independently as a separate company with separate
> board/chairman etc) with Bangkok-based flight attendants (mix of Japanese
> but mostly Thai) and Honolulu-based pilots (Americans). To add insult to
> injury, the JALways aircraft (complete with the old livery that was
starting
> to be phased out 2 years ago) was a 747-300 series, extremely worn and
> battered. The interior was like from some cheap motel in the 1970's
> (complete with peeling retro wallpaper and worn-out carpets).
>
> Funny how they try and fake it too, the Thai stewardesses had obviously
been
> handpicked, they chose those that most resembled Japanese, put their
> hairstyles in the same JAL standard and try to flog-off an inferior cheap
> "product" at JAL premium prices.
>
> I am not complaining about the service, that was quite good, but I do feel
> that it is wrong for JAL to exploit cheaper crews, and have the hide to
> charge passengers the full premium JAL airfare. Nowhere on my ticket or
> itinerary was it published that the flight would be operated by another
> airline. Keep it up JAL, I'll try another airline next time.
>
>


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