Originally Posted by
jc23
I have no beef with VX (actually have close friends that work there), but a discussion I had the other day with one of the flight school employees lead me to believe there are some real issues at VX. The flight school employee's spouse works at VX and is a UAL furlough who is not happy there and is looking forward to the recall. The flight school employee actually told me that they recommend folks goto VX just to get their Type and move on. Is this just a UAL issue or is VX facing some real negative perception issues? I don't know very much about the company but was a bit taken back to hear this coupled with points made on this thread that validate the view that VX is a career stepping stone not a destination.
Why not ask this question to your close friends that work at VX?
anyway, just going to VX to get an A320 type doesn't make much sense, unless you stay and get time in type to qualify for an overseas job and then it would be only SIC time. Also, the minimums are 4000TT, so most everyone hired has a good amount of experience and at least a decade in this industry. It's not like they are hiring 500hr flight school wonder pilots. Up until the announcement of slowing the AC orders and overall growth, VX had one of the quickest upgrades in the industry, that of course will now be longer and guys on the bottom may be looking at other opinions that will increase their QOL.
As far as the people that have left, they are UAL furloughs (which makes sense, I'd go back with that new contract and keeping my longevity), and the rest are FO's that have been hired mostly within the last year at VX. I know a couple that went to Spirit, Jetblue and USAir and for most the deciding factor was to no longer have the transcon commute and improve their QOL.