Originally Posted by
MrWizard
The letter by the COO was rather amusing, throwing the training department under the bus.
But hey look .. we've got 275 pilots in training! We just don't know where any of them are .. witness the recent survey required of those in training, or thought to be.
They literally lost track of everyone who is here and in the pipeline somehow.
I was okay with the email. Words are cheap and are intended for an audience. Who knows who the audience is? JO? United?
Results are what matters. The training department, particularly on the Ejet side, is a fail. He acknowledged that fact. So what?
If Mesa pays instructors properly, looks for good instructors we can retain, thinks about instructor QOL, shortens the new hire Ejet training footprint back to something reasonable (say 5’to 6 months), he will earn my respect.
The problem is we have 6 Ejets sitting, an unhappy partner, and a competitor moving into IAH. Despite everything I hear from the union and management, I cannot believe we are “meeting” the contract with 6 Ejets sitting during Spring Break unless Mesa has a side agreement to give these 6 Ejets back to United.
It would take an idiot to jump ship from Mesa to Republic if they are already on the line. A 5+ year upgrade in IAH; what a joke. And, unless a new hire was in SIMs or IOE already, they must be desperate to stay. But, the pool of pilots considering Mesa, unless they are desperate or live in IAH or ATL, just got a lot smaller.