Originally Posted by
porqueno
It is true, but it is the nature of the industry, most places that have training contracts are not reputable carriers and if they made their airlines a better place than maybe they would not need the contracts.
This "nature of the industry" is what drives such.
Small companies, operating on a string of a budget for whatever reason, spends XXX amount of money to train a guy. Said employee leaves after the small company a short stint (33 hours of time in the above example) and loses training investment. Of course the company needs to hire another and risk the same investment return. I'm sure if you were in charge of the financial health you wouldn't mind this cycle? that money lost COULD go to better maintain the airplanes, better benefits, or even a pay raise. Depends on the management team I'm sure and most would probably just line their pcokets, but we'll never find out.
Training contracts apply at other flying opportunities outside of the airlines and many of them are very reputable. My last three jobs now have training contracts and all are reputable.
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