Originally Posted by
Spooled
UND wants one thing and one thing only. MONEY. Do you think if they told you how thing REALLY were going to be that people would give them money? No.
Its all about money. Speaking of which... SHOW ME DA MONEY. CONTRACT NOW!
Very true. In all truth, a lot of the faculty there, when I was attending, were furloughed pilots from the airlines. Aftermath of 9/11, I guess. They did make a stink when GoJets came up for a job fair, so I will give them cred for that. However, like you said it all comes down to money, and I'm fairly certain many of them didn't like supporting certain regionals out there, but have to, otherwise they wouldn't get the students. Cha-Ching!
Originally Posted by
threegreen
tpersuit,
Its not UNDs job to teach history of regionals. A person must know where he/she is applying to and must research the company on their own and not rely on UND to do so. I am happy to hear that you went to XJT, lets hope you dont end up on the street here in couple months
Actually, we had a couple classes on the history of the airlines. But you are right, the person must take on the responsibility to research the company themselves. We are mostly just so naive at that point we don't know any better. I could very well be at Pinnacle or Mesaba right now and not think things are that bad. I just feel lucky I did a little research when I was instructing and built a couple more hundred hours before I jumped over to one.