To any Flexjet Onboarding/Talent Search Team or others who may know

Some operators (not mine) upon receipt of a PRIA request from another carrier will immediately terminate the pilot...senseless and stupid we can all agree but nonetheless, it happens all too often. I have a friend who is faced with this situation and is concerned about the gap between an event like this occurring based upon a CJO and PRIA request going out to his current employer.

Several questions if known by the experts on here:

1. When is the PRIA request triggered and sent out by Flexjet to current/ past employers?
2. Realizing the PRIA must be completed prior to the first 135 flight with FJ or any new employer, would Flex Jet delay a PRIA request to a timeframe much closer to the starting of indoctrination/simulator training? In other words, would they wait until the pilot is at least on property and getting paid by FJ but well before the first 135 flight?
3. When would be the right time to bring up this dilemma to the FJ interview team?

I've heard of this happening quite often by operators with some of their most trusted and respected employees but it happens enough in my mind to think this scenario is not unusual for a company the size of FJ. Just curious how they can handle it so my friend is not sandbagged by his current employer and left with no income for several weeks/months.

Thanks in advance for the answer.

 

I thought the PRIA was no longer used now that the PRD is up and running? Are companies still sending PRIA requests?

 

everything is through PRD, I hardly doubt that the current company is actually monitoring or if they have access to who you share your records.

 

the concern is IF the current company IS notified they have in the past fired people immediately. That would indicate companies are being notified in some form or fashion. That notification is triggered by the potential employee

Not familiar with PRID so is the notification of an inquiry into that database sent to the current employer?

does anyone know for certain who works at FJ?

 

The PRD system is a database (Pilot Records Database) that the applicant has to grant access to in order for anyone to see their training records. When an applicant applies for a job, at some point they will have to go into their PRD account and grant access to the specific company they are applying to. There is usually a time limit that the company is allowed to access the PRD account, generally enough time to review and verify records match what the applicant is telling them. There should be no notification sent to anyone as the PRD is between the applicant and the hiring company unlike the PRIA that is between the hiring company and the company said applicant is trying to leave. With the PRD now in full use, I don’t see how the company they are trying to leave can find out until the applicant submits their resignation.

This echoes what zeruela said in their last sentence a couple of posts up.

 

My company got a PRIA before I started at FJ, yes it caused a lot of issues.

 

Lots of airlines are still doing PRIA in addition to PRD.

 

like who?

It’s PRD, the only paper stuff these days I think is the national driver check, and I think maybe the prior drug testing info

 

Yes this is one of the issues PRD was supposed to fix.

But nothing stopping them from sending out the old forms, free country, they can ask for references or info in any manner they see fit. Although they may no longer have legal liability protections for doing so.

Guess if I were in that boat I'd inform them in writing that they're not to notify or communicate with my current employer in any manner without my approval. Hopefully they'll coordinate a mutually agreeable timing.