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Originally Posted by avengre (Post 317954)

I think its amusing that people are even considering working for these companies that require you to be suckered into staying with them once you work there. Thats very strange to be honest, goto one of the airlines that dosent charge a training contract and be realistic.

I would never work for someone who grabs me by the gonads my first day there and forces me to keep working.

Nothing can be that good about RAH to require me to ***** myself out and be an 'endentured' servent.

Think about any other job, how many of them make you PAY for their 'office training' if you quit.

Strangely enough, I sleep just fine at night.

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Originally Posted by avengre (Post 317954)

Im with Sharkey on this one, it would be different if mesa or TSA required it, but RAH is a reputable company that has a constant growth rate. From what I hear people generally like working there. By the time you make captain the contract is up anyways, or when you upgrade before 2 years to captain, the contract becomes void (at least from what I understand). As opposed to eagle where you are sitting for 6 years waiting for an upgrade.

besides it takes over $15,000 to train 1 pilot, now multiply that by 800. what do i know but $12,000,000 is alot of money to an airline. All they are asking for is a little insurance that you will be around for a while. Why do you think RAH mins are still 800/100. All I am saying is that if I was in the business and I spent that much money to train 1 person, I would want a little guarantee as well.

of course remember everyone, up until the late 90s, you brought a $10k check with you to training. yes, it was pay for training.

also, RAH tends to (unintentionally, perhaps) poach pilots from other airlines so, knowing the people, may be wants to make sure we don't repeat ourselves...

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Originally Posted by KiloAlpha (Post 316755)

I flew with a check airman last night and didn't bring my hat.. not a word was said about it. It felt nice not wearing the hat for a change; I felt like I went down a notch of two on the tool-o-meter.

Not to mention that plastic lining on the inside turns that thing into an oven in the summer. My hat currently has about 2lbs of change in it and when I top it off I'll take it to the bank.