Originally Posted by Meccathor

We don't have a flow through. It's more of a preferential interview. The company has been telling people that to try and get people to come here.

The process really works like this:
Each month that Airways runs a new hire class, Either 25% of the classes or 3 pilots (Whichever is LESS) must be offered a class date. (That's total for the month, not per class)

Before you can do this, you have to sign a waiver saying that airways has full access to your personnel file and training records. You must then put in an application to USAirways.

If they go through your application, and then go through your records, and there's nothing that they don't like, you will eventually get a call where you will still have to interview for the job just like someone off the street.

2 big caveats with this program is that:
a) The language in the contract mentions specifically that it is an agreement with USAirways only and that it needs to be renegotiated in the event of a merger. (The language is unclear, some would say that it is null and void with the merger, and some will say that it would be status quo and would only need renegotiated if we wanted to change something. Only time will tell on that one.
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b) The language says that at the "sole discretion" of Usairways, if there are no qualified candidates, then they don't have to take anyone from PDT at all.

As far as I know, no one has gone over there yet through this program, so we see if it is effective or not at getting PDT people hired there.