Originally Posted by HydraulicPump

Better question is "why would anyone want fly for Piedmont? Their training dept. is known to be horrendously terrible. No standardization with sim instructors. Sim instructors that lack sim skills to demonstrate maneuvers. None of them use the syllabus they pass out in ground school, and if you mention the syllabus to a sim instructor, they make excuses why they don't use it. As far as PDT getting jets, just a recruiting tactic to get pilots to join a small meaningless regional airline. Also, the PDT domiciles are out stations requiring a two or three leg commute.