We have over 12,000 applicants right now, we can do what we want. Heck, maybe running down Quebec Ave in a pink tutu should be added just for you.
5-7 years from now it may be a different story, heck we may even be handing out UAL seniority numbers to freshmen at ERAU.
Whatever your fascination is with the "top-notch" hiring methods at the "elite" regionals like Skywest, it's noted, but it still would not have changed the fact that new-hires sometimes make jacka$$ moves and get fired. It happens at every regional, face-to-face interview or not.
Just because the applicant is hired over the phone doesn't mean Mesa doesn't have an obligation under Federal law to perform the necessary background checks. In fact, people have been asked to leave in the middle of indoc because something popped on their background. It's the price Mesa is willing to pay instead of flying applicants to PHX to do a face-to-face interview. Fact is those background issues would pop regardless, an it's usually a small percentage, so why not get the "meat in the seat" instead of having the applicant sit at home waiting to be cleared to start?
Thinking that a US 121 carrier doesn't perform all necessary background checks because they do a phone interview is WICKED RETARDED!
My point exactly!
The guy did something douchie during indoc, and is really not indicative of the hiring process.
Really???? So you're saying you need a "back-stop" to protect your carreer in case you don't have the ability to get through training? That is pretty weak. I mean you and Facebiter come on here conveying the "holier than though because I interviewed, took a written test, and flew a Frasca" bravado and yet you're concerned about having a training issue and possibly a ding in PRIA. That is priceless hypocrisy!
But wait, why get all defensive when someone brings up the long upgrade time at Skywest? (See the quotes below)
Quick upgrades are bad right?!?!?
But facebiter says that's a bad thing, it's "dangerous"!
Yeah, it's fun watching the Skywesties and TSAers boast about their positions when a good portion of their UAX fleets will probably be parked over the next 5 years.
So when UAL says "we have no more use for 50 seaters" (and yes that day will come), for whom do you envision you'll be flying them for?
At least he can make coherent, fact based posts that normal adults can read and debate with. You on the other hand are like the "peaked in high school Rob Lowe" from the Directv commercials.
Most regional airline progress is predicated on rumor, no need for a crystal ball, just look at history.
And once you get consolidated expect to sit on reserve and do nothing while all the open time is used to build consolidation lines for folks coming out of training, at least that is what happened here in IAH.
You Skywesties crack me up......you do realize you guys are non-union and that everything you have was given to you because others negotiated it. You guys work for some of the "smarmiest" management folks around. You are in no position whatsoever to point fingers at those who collectively bargained in this industry, because all you guys have done is collectively taken.
That thing was horrible!
I heard they only got 12 in the most recent class.
Agreed, and I'd expect to see more of this stuff. It may eventually happen at the majors.
Jerry Atkin, and 2 failed ALPA drives, any questions?