Originally Posted by
Floyd
I'm pointing out the hypocrisy. The majors had furloughed pilots out for years if not over a decade. Some flew and some did not. Maybe for some it was more challenging but, they made it through the training footprint. Again, there is a difference between someone who has been out of the cockpit for 10-15 yrs vs 1-2. I fully understand the risk undertaken by hiring someone who's been out for an extended time, but a year or two?
What makes the training at the regional level stand out compared to the majors? As described above, the majors have experience in training pilots lacking currency. Speaking of training, do the majors or the regionals have the higher washout rate?
Oh, and thanks for making my point in regards to hiring 1800 hr CFIs.
While your first paragraph is true, it doesn't point to hypocrisy or even what the company desires, it points to what the Union was able to negotiate. If the company had their way, they would just fire pilots whenever they needed to (maybe just for the winter months???) and then you would have to re-apply when the company needed more pilots.
Unlike furloughs, when it comes to hiring the company gets to make the rules. (within FAA requirements) They can and do come up with some crazy stuff, but you can either:
1. play by their rules or
2. not play at all.
Complaining about them, criticizing them, laughing at them on a public forum, sure that is what we pilots do. However, ultimately you still have the two choices. If you choose option 1, then in this case that means go get current.
That doesn't mean that afterward everyone here will agree you
are more qualified than others, but it does mean that the majors will
think you are more qualified than others, and theirs is the only opinion that matters!