Originally Posted by
Jetlife
AMF needs to fix the systemic issues and stop continually banking on industry stipulations to get warm bodies. This is 10 years in the making and overdue for companies like this. The gettin' was good when the airlines were on furlough, then seemingly overnight AMF and regionals couldn't fill classes and had to raise pay, to which AMF, regionals and other 135s did. The last draw for AMF was to get people in with less than ATP mins and to trap them with a contract. Now that is going to be much harder, its time to really step the game up and do it right, and to stop half assing it if they want to attract half way decent pilots, and to keep them.
Took you long enough to get your AMF slap in, Jet.
Actually, my point on this whole thing is, if the pilots are able to use the time we pay them to get to bolt to the regionals, why would AMF hire them is the first place? Why would we pay them to advance their carriers to only get a couple of months productive work out of them?
If it is going to take the 135 operator getting permission to implement a new pilot development program to allow pilots to log time that doesn't help the operator, why would any of them do it?