Originally Posted by
A320Flyer
LOL. Meaning..."pilots that just can't get hired anywhere else." Maybe if management gives us a good contract, they won't have to scavenge the bottom of the pool.
Candidates....expect a VP of Flight Ops briefing at the fair...."If you want United pay, well, go to United."
I take offense to that! First of all when I got hired no one else was hiring. Who knows maybe my connections at United or AA would have worked out if they had been hiring at the time.
I have friends on the Airbus at AA, USAIRWAYS formally, and United that tell me that they would not have made it through Airbus Training with only 4 simulator sessions.
You can say what you want, but the best pilots I have flown with are at Spirit. I don't see our quality decreasing at all and I would bet our pilots are some of the best pilots in the world. We don't get pilots from a regional under a BS flow through program. Our pilots have to get qualified first and jump through major hurdles just to get an interview.