Yes, it is good to "safeguard" your pilot group. Helps you avoid hiring even more people who have taxied twins off the taxiway into the mud, or landing Falcons off the end of a runways, or bring their personal problems to work with them. :-)

XOJet has no better pilot group than any other fractional. There are many excellent candidates out there that are at a disadvantage just because some XOJet pilot (with undisclosed or shady past experiences) does not recommend them.

Good to hear about the new vacation policy. Again, I like the company but dislike the common practice of internal recs on the "front-end" of determining interviews. It should really only be disclosed, or used after phone and in-person interviews take place. "of the candidates we interviewed, here are the ones that came from internal recs."

your thoughts?