Originally Posted by
FreqFlyer
But what you are citing sounds more like an “opinion”, then any actual evidence that the program is limiting or will somehow hold someone back. Do you have any specific evidence of that? We all know your opinion of Alaska very well by now, so I’m not surprised your opinion of their cadet program is negative too….
Of course it's my opinion, but at least it's an educated one. You literally just told everyone that you don't know any of the details about the program - why don't you Google around for a few minutes and then form your own opinion, and in the meantime, stay out of the conversation if you don't have anything but uneducated speculation to offer?
Alaska pays $26k toward an applicant's Commercial and in exchange, participants agree to work for QX for at least two years. To be eligible to continue on to AS, they have to upgrade and get 1000 PIC at QX and release their attendance/discipline records, while AS hires RIGHT OFF THE STREET WITH ZERO TPIC.
Would you sign that? All those strings attached for $26k? QX and every other regional will hire anyone with 1500hrs. QX FO's are getting hired everywhere, including DAL/UAL, without even upgrading. Why on earth would you commit to sitting there for at least 2 years when all your friends are going to LCC's or legacies? Or going to Alaska first because they got hired off the street instead of having to check all these extra boxes that you agreed to?
$26k is better than nothing, but you'll make that up pretty quickly just by getting hired at a major airline a year or two sooner than the suckers that handcuffed themselves to the Ascend/Pathways program.