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02-02-2012, 09:04 AM
#141
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02-02-2012, 09:06 AM
#142
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Position: Frenchy plane/ Left
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Mooney is right...you really do think you are the only one with any experience who didn't have to get hired in the days when 1500+/500+ published mins were the norm, and not flexible......wanna guess what my background is oh great one? hint: more experienced than yours.....
02-02-2012, 09:12 AM
#143
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Posts: 939
I don't work at GoJet anymore. I moved on see? I got my time and moved on. See, back in the old days you didn't get your certificates then get hired by a regional. You had to instruct for a few years, then maybe fly some freight then maybe.....just maybe after you aquired 2500 or greater hours THEN you may or may not get hired flying a turbo-prop puddle jumper. So, yes it took me some time. Fact is I took a pay CUT to go to the regional airlines. It was a time when you didn't go from wet certificate to a rj. It was a different time.
02-02-2012, 09:26 AM
#146
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02-02-2012, 09:33 AM
#147
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Oh ok, I'm new to all this and have just been reading the forums trying to weed out fact from fiction between all the bickering. Pay was just brought up a lot in a reasoning of why or why not to work there, but I understand I think. Gojet was was basically formed because TSA wanted the pilots to fly a bigger plane for the same lower wages. So they formed a new airline and gave people the chance to jump over and do it if they wanted too, right? Those who remained loyal to what they believed stayed, and those who didn't care either way left...That's basically it in a nutshell, correct?
02-02-2012, 09:40 AM
#148
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Oh ok, I'm new to all this and have just been reading the forums trying to weed out fact from fiction between all the bickering. Pay was just brought up a lot in a reasoning of why or why not to work there, but I understand I think. Gojet was was basically formed because TSA wanted the pilots to fly a bigger plane for the same lower wages. So they formed a new airline and gave people the chance to jump over and do it if they wanted too, right? Those who remained loyal to what they believed stayed, and those who didn't care either way left...That's basically it in a nutshell, correct?
02-02-2012, 09:44 AM
#149
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Posts: 8
I see...and what was TSA offering the pilots who remained loyal versus the pilots who jumped ship and left? I mean, what were the incentives, what did TSA do that was so great to make them want to stay vs. what Gojet had to offer?
02-02-2012, 09:48 AM
#150
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Pretend like you work at McDonalds. You are only on the register. Then the boss tells you he also wants you to clean the restroom and be the fry guy and purchasing agent at their newest bigger store, but you will not get paid more. You tell him you should get paid more or more work as is the norm in the corporate world. He then goes out and hires a guy willing to do that work for less pay than you are currently making just on the register, and fires you. How would you feel towards that new guy and management?
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