Originally Posted by BeatNavy

You sound like management. People leave companies all the time when they get better offers. Happens to the LCCs and even some legacies. There is no loyalty in this game...from either side. For example, let's say United hired you, you quit your old established job, you're in training, and you get furloughed. Is that "fair" of United? Every airline who has furloughed has hired until they furloughed. Happens in this industry. Give me a break. It's a free market. The answer? Offer pay/comp that is as good or better than the competition. It's a business cost. Find a list of regionals who have training contracts. There aren't any. Great mistakes I think, but they don't count. No respectable airline has training contracts. Other airlines shell out retention bonuses to keep people (they pay you to stay, instead of scaring you into paying money to stay). Think they do it for fun? No...cost of doing business. Training contracts are a sign that they have a feeling people will want to leave.

Mesa wants me to fly their planes the way they want me to fly them. Just like any job requiring a certain skill set, they have to pay to train me. If they run an airline such that people want to leave, it isn't the fault of the "selfish" employee who wants to find a better opportunity for himself and his family, it's the company for making a bad work environment or not stacking up against the competition with respect to pay and work rules.

You must be new to this business. For the love of God and the betterment of our profession, please refrain from such ridiculous posts.