I wonder what new revelations will emerge in the Sunday papers about Thomas Cook’s behaviour in the tragic deaths in 2006 of little Christi and Bobby Shepherd?
Week in, week out, grim, new tidings have hardened the impression that this has been a company where management’s human compassion was overrun by the bleak, corporate mindset where lawyers’ “never apologise, never admit” advice rules.
Latest in the Fleet Street dock was former chief executive Harriet Green, who came under fire for being in line for a £10.5 million bonus despite claims by the children’s parents that the company treated them “shamefully” on her watch.
She agreed to pay a third of it to charity.
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But when he finally got around to apologising recently, her successor, Peter Fankhauser, admitted not only should he have said sorry on behalf of Thomas Cook when he took over in November, but also that the company should have done so nine years earlier.
However, Ms Green was only in post for two of those nine years.
From 2003 to 2011, Manny Fontenla-Novoa was running the show, famously earning £17.2 million in his time there, while current, £316,000-a-year chairman Frank Meysman has also been in post since 2011.
Maybe their pay will be next to feel the media heat.
