Originally Posted by
ClappedOut145
I for one applaud PDT. They are taking advantage of the market that has excess pilots. Some people in here have a serious panty twist about those who can check boxes. Just because you can check a box doesn’t make you more deserving of a job. PDT and every airline should strive to hire nothing but the best available pilots. The color of their skin and what’s between their legs should have zero bearing on who gets hired. I want the best pilot up front, not the best of a sub group.
“At the end of the day, Piedmont paying for the ATP CTP program was a form of payment. And yet, there are pilots who are happy to defend cutting that payment....”
Congrats on having a stance that financially hurts ALL pilots without ATPs.
Let’s say that hypothetically you have a captain who got hired at Piedmont with an ATP and plenty of jet time. He’s collectively regarded as being awful to fly with, has poor hygiene, and is scary behind the yoke. He does things like leave an engine running at an outstation and FaceTime the ground crew to instruct them how to shut it down AFTER they’ve called his hotel room to ask him why “the screens are still on”.
This hypothetical pilot, given everything I’ve made up about him, was almost certainly hired because he had an ATP. Clearly he is not “the best pilot up front” they could have found. He got hired because he checked the box (your words) of having an ATP.
You’re defending Piedmont taking the cheap route and conflating ATP holders with better pilots, probably because you get to denounce “box checking” as that aligns with your political leanings. But hiring someone because they cost the company $5,000 less isn’t about skill - it’s about nothing but money. The most important box to check for the bean counters.