Originally Posted by
billyho
Didn't they already hire the pilots? If you buy a ticket on Delta and you connect on a CRJ-900 in ATL aren't you being flown by a Delta Pilot? Where is the standard? They were good enough to allow there passengers to fly on a Delta Connection Plane. I don't see any Delta mainline Pilots Levitating around the ATL airport with halos around there heads.
We had a few WO'ed pilots (good ones) get turned down at US Airways and they came right back to Piedmont flying US Airways Passengers. Hmmm makes me wonder. So basically they are still good to fly US Airways passengers? But just not good enough to fly them on a bigger and easier plane to fly. Don't get me wrong I think Mainline should be able to hire who they want. But it's just kinda funny when they turn down a pilot that's already basically flying there metal.
I have a feeling that soon American will take over all the hiring at the WO'ed airlines.
That would only resonate with the righteous indignation of zero tolerance for #irony
if, and only if, the decision to hire them was because they weren't a safe pilot.
There are
plenty of other reasons to not hire a particulr employee at a particular company, even though the current company they work with is associated with the other company and they all interact with their customers.
What if one particular regional pilot happens to sick out over a lot of holidays when he was junior? Or he misses a lot of commutes? Or he has a lot of traffic violations? Or he just has a bad attitude? A mainline company would have no say over that, and as long as he was off probation at his current regional most likely neither would they.
OK so what if its because of a result in a knowledge test or a cog test, or even a psych test. Shirley that is the smoking gun for safety, right? Not even close. A knowledge test at that point is most likely used just to see how motivated someone is to work there. Did they care enough to study for that particular test? A psych test doesn't necessarily just weed out the mentally insane; it could just be to help give an idea of personality. He could be 100% safe, but a total tool to fly with. A cog test is merely one indicator for potential trainability. Not many regionals likely care if all their pilots can bounce around 10 different fleet types in the next 20 years, but a legacy might.
There is zero irony and no injustice whatsoever from airlines having their own interview process. Especially in the internet age when preparing for one has never been easier. Mainlines and their regionals are different companies. Heck even some regionals owned by other regionals are different companies, to the point where seniority isn't portable and if one pilot wants to work for the other one, they have to get past a different interview, no matter whose "passengers they're flying".
Funny thing is, most pilots get hired at most interviews. The success rate for those that prepare is usually very, very high. Squealing about the non existant cosmic irony of it all is just spinning your wheels while someone else behind you gets ahead of you.