Originally Posted by
AYLflyer
This sucks for everyone involved but jesus some of you are acting like the airline/aviation industry actually has a heart. Hire till you fire? Ever hear of that? It's happened before, it's happening now and it'll happen again. I have friends who were hired back in late 07/early 08 at companies that no longer exist. Offered a class only for them to not even make it to class because the company was going under. THAT is a dirt bag move, when you know you aren't capable of holding a class yet still bring people in. This whole virus thing is unprecedented. We went from absolute best time to be a pilot, airlines booming to literally overnight we're talking furloughs and bankruptcy. I'm never one to defend any company, but look at the facts of this one. What can they realistically do? Spend money to train them when we don't even know what tomorrow brings? This isn't easy for everyone, and I hope it all ends and goes back to normal soon, and we can get these guys on property ASAP. I too have a couple friends who just interviewed and it sucks knowing after all this time hoping they get a call, this stuff starts happening.
NO!! I laid it out. Offer for them to start, do Indoc, go home and stay on training pay at $2k/mo until they figure out how this will play out and when to put them through training. No training costs. De minimis salary cost. Outside of 2 weeks: cancel away. Inside: honor the date you already agree upon since those guys gave 2 weeks notice. Or offer them the next class date, but put it on their terms.
And every airline does stuff like this, but jetblue makes it a big deal to profess they are one of a few airlines who has never furloughed, has values and cares about people. I’m a realist and know how things really are, but I just wanted to highlight the fact that not only are we like everyone else, we are actually in the back of the pack when it comes to stuff like this. Pathetic AA of all airlines is doing people right and we aren’t. Hyperboy professes that our culture makes us different. My point is that it doesn’t. There is no culture. There is one value here: $$$.