Originally Posted by
mike734
Recently, about a third of each class has had pilots from Horizon.
I think that's the ratio they've been shooting for. Much better than the "olden days" when the Bagwan refused to let QX guys go to Alaska because he didn't want to be the Alaska Training Dept.
So instead of guys staying in the company (btw, QX pilots are trained to the same basic standard as AS pilots), guys with a lot of local PNW experience and knowledge, they jumped ship for the other majors.
Why the Bagwan couldn't understand that was a complete mystery to me.
But then, again, the Bagwan once called his pilots "juvenile delinquents in uniforms" in the QX inflight magazine for all the passengers' edification. Genius, pure genius.