I have a number of friends who work for Piedmont. They've been telling the pilots that "new plane" crap for years.


The only comment I have about Piedmont is that their training department is one of the worst out there. The flying, pay, and contract are not terrible, as long as you can make it through the training department. If it was just difficult, that would be one thing because the DHC-8 isn't an easy airplane. But, from everything I've heard from many of my friends that went there, it's not only hard, but also very unfair and seriously lacking in standardization.