Originally Posted by
own nav
I think the answer is somewhere in the middle. There is an interview somewhere in the mentoring programs, but the point is it can be nailed down early in the process, and the class date given when the other requirements are met. I recall the discussion in the conference call, and agree that would be nice to see that written in detail. If pilots are going to devote 2 or 3 years of their career to a specific goal, it is good to nail down the details of what they can expect.
There is not any agreement that I am aware of, where a company takes X number of AMF pilots per month that want to go, by their DOH. All of them are preferential interviews with the AMF CP recommendation, and a host of other boxes that need to be checked, and that's fine. Come to AMF, spend several years, meet all the requirements and do that if that's what you want. Calling anything there a flow through is dangerous, because most equate that to airline flow, and it is nothing like that.
AMF just seems to never be able to really get things right. It almost seems as though these programs are to get people talking about AMF, but when the details of the program want to be known, that is where the buck stops. The UPS program does nothing for AMF pilots so that's whatever, but what about Frontier, Omni, Allegiant etc? How are these programs not pushed hard and the details immediately available? The careful discretion by recruiters is a familiar cultural stigma that still exists there. Walk into UND, tell their flight instructors that if they go to AMF, Frontier will hire them, and walk out hoping that does enough to get them on property before they get the details. Very weird way to operate.