Danish breakfast every Friday

Today was pretty nice and as each day goes by I feel less sad about Sterling and more hopeful for the future and happy for the good memories.




The major morale booster was all our old team met up for Breakfast (in Denmark it is customary to have breakfast in the workplace with your colleagues every Friday), at one of our guys house out near Roskilde. He had already arranged to leave Sterling to get a job closer to home and today was supposed to be his last day !

Day after Sterling Bankruptcy

Just reflected on what happened yesterday, I'm not sure what the exact sequence of trauma goes but isn't something like denial, anger then acceptance ?

While it does feel nice in a way to have a day off work (just the escape from the daily commute etc) I'm a lot less upset than yesterday and a bit more angry - e.g. how can governments pump literally billions into propping up banks and not help an airline that gives Scandinavia 1 million inbound tourists and supports thousands of jobs. Instead of paying tax the tourists (VAT is 25%) go somewhere else and the employees take benefits instead of paying tax (approx 50%).

Saying all that I have never particuarly been a lefty when it come to economics, but then again well I came to Scandinavia I haven't minded paying the high tax as I can see where it's being spent on excellent public facilities which I prefer to the Iraq war!

Apart from that I'm still hopeful that a white knight will rescue Sterling airlines, even though I haven't seen that happen at other bankrupt airlines such as XL and silverjet. I think it's OK for young people like me to lose their jobs as we can always move onto something else but I do feel sorry for some of the older people, crew in particular as it would be harder for them to get a job in the current airline and general economic situation.

Sterling Airlines Bankrupt I'm suspended

Today was an awful day.


About 1 minute after I woke up I got a text to watch the TV news as the airline I work for had filed for bankruptcy. All operations have been cancelled. The fleet of Boeing 737s was all back in Scandinavia and has been grounded. Here is the message on the Sterling website


Sterling Airlines had been in talks with potential buyers but because a deal could not be reached a decision was made, on the advice of lawyers to file for bankruptcy. I went into work anyway as there was a meeting to explain the situation. Trouble was it was mostly in Danish which is not my strongest language, and also the meeting was run by lawyers who do in general have a hard time giving straight answers.

We Sterling employees haven't been sacked but equally there is no guarantee that our jobs will be saved and it is also not clear if there is enough money to pay our wages for October.

So this is the first post in this blog . . . Things can only get better. The reason I decided to start this job is to diarise what I'm sure will be a very dynamic time in my life. If the airline cannot be brought back to life in some form then I will need a new job.