Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
It is pretty easy to have "huge success" giving away a $300,000 gift to a $4,000,000 + career. Where do we sign up?
The problem is ... the program is highly discriminatory.
Further, in Europe & Asia these programs have led to a sort of indentured servitude where 5,500 applicants fight for a dozen spots and then realize the training contract ain't all that, so they end up bidding a trip and phoning in the "I quit" from an outstation.
With 12,000 applicants at Delta, at least 5,000 of whom have already been flying Delta passengers for most of a decade and several thousand who would make good Delta pilots, I just don't see why you and me should be eager to share our (pick one CAPEX for new airplanes, or, profit sharing) with a wanna be who put nothing into the effort but a X chromosome.
Bar;
My opinion was not intermixed with my post. I was stating how it is, and where the airline management of today sees those types of programs going tomorrow.
Many airlines are focusing on trying to find the "qualified" applicant that is still enthralled with airplanes and wants to do it because it is fun. They still do not want to deal with the reality that to get those applicants en mass, they need to pay more. From what I can see, they are doing everything they can do avoid that.
What the program is or isn't is of little importance, the point is that it is going on and DAL is supporting it.