The 49ers. The True Story

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing Ltd
Publisher Place: United Kingdom
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 589 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: The remarkable story of the Cathay Pacific pilots who took on the system.Youre a pilot, a Captain no less with Cathay Pacific - one of the worlds most prestigious airlines. One day you receive a DHL package at your home in Hong Kong. Youre fired! No formality, no reason, no warning. Soon you discover that 48 of your colleagues have been unceremoniously dismissed in the same manner.This nightmare scenario is exactly what happened in July 2001 to Captain John Warham and his fellow 49ers. It was the final fall of the axe after a protracted period of bitter wrangling between Cathay management and its pilots union over cost-cutting, pay concessions, rostering and flight safety issues.Over the next eight years, Warham and his Band of Brothers fought tooth and nail against the mighty corporate power of Cathay in an attempt to exonerate themselves and show the companys true colours to the world. What resulted was one of the most complex and truly international

ISBN: 9781846245879