There's nothing like a good moan. Nigel, for those of you not in the aviation profession, is aircrew slang for a British Airways pilot, and like most of his ilk he loves his job but has issues with the way it's organised. Conditions at BA not being at their finest just at the moment, some of those issues are bubbling over. With job cuts on the cards and rumours of entire subsidiaries being run into the ground, some Nigels are miserable enough to contemplate industrial action.
Fierce debates are in the air.
I would normally hear as little about the internal politics of BA as I do about the Taliban's. It's been going since 1996, and has grown in ways that would have venture capitalists bashing down doors. Yet the only VCs these chaps want to talk about are VC-10s. The site is nominally supported by a smidgen of advertising, but it remains a labour of love for the pilots who run it. Which gives them total freedom to develop the site how they like, and that has made it unique.