Originally Posted by
AirbusA320
Training costs for Net Jet Pilots is virtually nil. The reason is that Warren Buffet owns Flight Safety. I'm sure Net Jet pilots are not crowding out any full fare paying customers. Such training is costs around $25,000 per pilot per year.
Define "Nil".
If a business pays rent to a landlord that owns a building and the landlord also operates the business... are you saying that the business doesn't need to pay for rent and it's okay?
I can assure you that business is business and a "NIL" tab would not be good business for FSI/NJA/Berk Hath. If anything we pay MORE for training as "clients".
In all humbleness... go start/run a business or read some books at least about business and you'll see what I mean.
There are no freebees for NetJets when we train at FSI.
On that note... No. Nobody in management has told us that there will be furloughs.
I'm not going to go into why it would or would not be to the companies benefit to furlough other than to say that furloughs are an answer to short term financial needs of the company that have long term detrimental effects on the workforce that decrease moral and product thereby affecting customer satisfaction which decreases income, revenue and profits.
Got that?
NetJets is focused on LONG TERM money making. I would look for NetJets to leave 30% of the pilots home so as to not incur unnecessary hotel, airfare, per diem and rental car expenses before a furlough would take place.
I would expect that NetJets would only desire to furlough ONLY the minimum needed AFTER reducing other costs. This company isn't acting like it's going to furlough. Trust me... I've been furloughed 4 times.
Not saying it can't happen but just 2 days ago I met a group of new hires training on the Sovereign. We're still training pilots as new hires.
Hope this helps the "chicken littles" out there.
And when I typed on the CE750 (X), the costs was $31,000.... more than several years ago.