Originally Posted by
MrBojangles
I think you're missing the point 80kts...sure it's a great career, but we want to hire the best and brightest pilots then we treat them this way? when a regional and basically every other airline will pay for your hotel? doesn't add up. this is some old school BS from back in the day when people had to pay to get a flying job.
Pretty much what I'm getting at.
And yep, the legacy is the "brass ring" so speak. There will ALWAYS be people that have ZERO reservation about dealing with things not found in just about any other job.
To bring it back to a previous point, CAL circa 2005 till everybody else started hiring was "the place to be" for many. Sure, it's a legacy airline. But the contract sucked, the pay sucked, no health insurance for 6 months sucked, the bases sucked, and the management was trending towards the non labor friendly style they have now. And plenty of people that let CAL pay for their 737 type rating as well as hotel so they could put the app in at SouthWest.
Yet never anywhere near a shortage of applicants.