Originally Posted by
Lanesuzza
United has recently launched a new training program with the Lufthansa flight training center in Arizona. United screens potential student pilots, sends them through flight school and after the student instructs for 18 months they go to United mainline. My friend is an instructor there and has a class date already. While I agree Frontier makes sense, I do know United is concerned and taking steps. FYI, United's Senior Vice-President of Flight Ops was traveling on Boutique, conversing and handing out his business card.....
This is simply not true. They have agreements with CommutAir and ExpressJet and they do, do some training in Arizona but the canadates do NOT go straight to United mainline after instructing.