Originally Posted by
Skyvector
The exact point I've been trying to make for a while now. I'm glad it's finally starting to sink in around here.
It's important potential new hires understand that a quickie upgrade and PIC time will lead you NOWHERE quick these days. Some (most) new hires are still under the delusion that all you have to do is hit that arbitrary 1,000 hours PIC and you move on....just like that.
Not so. Not even close. A true flow from Regional to mainline will be your fastest ticket. Otherwise you will spend years throwing money at job fairs only to be let down over and over. Eventually you will end up at an LCC while pilots from Regionals with a true flow move up to mainline.
Don't fall for the quickie upgrade trap.
I think you are trying to project your own failures as a pilot onto new people. It's more likely that you spent a bunch of money on job fairs over and over and was let down.
Newbies to this industry reading these forums today are already well aware that only very senior envoy pilots will ever flow at envoy, but in order for that to happen they need fresh new sucker pilots to fill that vacuum.
Would you really have all these kids believe that Regional 121 Captain time is not at all important? If Captains are not important, who's going to fly your airplanes?
"sinking in" you say? It's not sinking in, if anything deception is being exposed.
Hey man, I feel for you guys at Envoy, daddy American has dealt you a sh*t hand and they are probably not done yet. You need newbies coming through the door so you guys that have been stuck all these years can flow out of here. But we both know that the new guys are not part of the group that was guaranteed a flow. New guys will only serve the purpose of maintaining the airline during your downsizing as you shrink to 1/2 the size you are today.