akfrtdwg 57

Am I the only one who is concerned with HR sending people 'study guides' for the tech portion? Why even have a Technical Interview if you are telling people what you are gonna ask.

Disturbing they can't even find people now with enough background to know what to study up on or atleast have the experience that they didn't need to re-read what information is found in a 10-9 or 10-9a page. Now they have to tell them ahead of time to give them a handicap.

kodiakallstar

They were well aware of all the gouge that existed back in the day when the interview questions were pretty much ridiculous. They never changed the questions though. They assumed if you are willing to put in the work you want it bad enough. The questions are way easier now I would say comically so but I’m guessing since there is a total lack of interest very little gouge exists so they’ve provided it for you.

ROBsINtheHOOD

If I was their ( only ) customer I would be worried about the skill , experience and professionalism of the flight crew entrusted with such an expensive commodity. They deserve better.

121guy

They don’t give a damn about any of that, that’s what insurance is for.

jungle driver

their insurance premiums must be going through the roof! it surprises me that the insurance companies haven't started asking more questions especially after the the crash in IAH. But who knows maybe they have and maybe higher premiums are just another higher cost the company is willing to pay to keep the pilots from getting a new contract.

JonnyKnoxville

Don't forget that IAH was the SECOND crash at Atlas Air and it all happened within a short time period. BTW, nothing has changed except more of our skilled and experienced pilots have been heading out the door. I wonder how many accidents have to happen before someone takes action?

maxjet

Hmmmm. Interesting that people were picking on the original poster for a lack of knowledge while themselves having a lack of knowledge. Good catch Cujo. Glass houses.........

Elevation

It would be easy to do a few things that are industry-proven and low cost to improve our general safety performance. For example we have no AQP, no LOSA and no FOQA. We have the resources.

LOSA and AQP don't required a new contract. A public, polite announcement that we are asking for a safety program along with some calendar goals drives the other party toward deploying that program. Intransigent regulators would be driven to act. It would be publicly embarrassing to resist a proven safety-of-flight related program, for example. So we have the data, the leverage, the resources and even a pretty easy strategy to drive real improvements to flight safety. Ironically, this would help us retain business.

So why don't we do these things? Our priorities are dangerously misplaced on both sides of the table.

Personally, I think BK worries about this, but is overloaded with the contract fight. BF and JD are worried about the liability they may face, so their moves are all going to be centered around not admitting fault.

Corrective action starts with exposing our failures.

kodiakallstar

Aqp basically got shelved during negotiations by the company. You say you can’t publicly refuse a safety program but that’s exactly what they did 3 years ago

NeverHome

No it’s on a 10-9, though yes if the airport is large enough then it’s on the back as a 10-9a. Sorry I was not very clear in my original post.