Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
If you're asking if absorbing the company training that could have been given to an honest employee who intended to stay, enhancing your resume with a new type rating, then failing to give any service in return and jumping ship is frowned upon, it really sounds like you're asking if you can perform an act of dishonor without looking bad. Kind of like asking if you steal something, will anyone give you a hard time?
Honesty ad integrity is what you do when no one is looking. Think about that.
I’m not at all disagreeing with you but looking bad and having that affect your career are two different things. There was a time when it was difficult to get a job at any airline, even regionals supply far outnumbered demand. If you did this back then it would be possible that the airline you “dishonored” would get in touch with your next airline and discuss your actions to the point that the second airline might “unhire” you by some means and now you look bad on paper and have a lot of explaining to do at future interviews. I think these days the second airline would just be happy to have a warm body in a classroom and it really wouldn’t affect you in any way. Again, I’m not saying it wouldn’t be frowned upon, I just don’t think it would really ever come back to bite you in the next decade or so.