Originally Posted by
minimwage4
I don't understand, at our company there were plenty of people that couldn't go to Canada, they just put someone else that could on the schedule. What's the big deal at Skywest with not hiring people that can't go there?
Seniority? You obviously don't understand how that works yet.
A senior pilot should have to fly a crappy canada trip because a junior pilot was irresponsible in his past?
Canada made this rule up only a few years ago, so all airlines probably got stuck with a few pilots who could not go north. They could have fired them, but they worked around the issue instead. But it makes no sense to knowingly hire pilots who arre going to be an operatioanlly limited and require special handling for years or forever.
I don't mind my airline hiring pilots who had a DUI in their distant past. But I don't want my airline hiring pilots junior to me who have operational limitations...I already paid my dues (well most of them), I don't want to have to pay them again because somebody junior to me can't.
If we were talking Paris instead of Edmonton it wouldn't be an issue.
Originally Posted by
minimwage4
And to the original poster I know a recent Skywest hire that had a DUI within 5 years. He fought it, like everyone should, and I believe now it just shows up as an arrest in his records.
That's what you have to do...get it reduced to something which is not a felony-equivalent in canada.
A DUI means you will have an uphill battle with the recruiters regardless. But if you can't enter canada, it's no-go