Originally Posted by KCaviator (Post 3045754)

Article 11.B.4



”The Company shall not recruit, hire, or Train any Pilot not on the Seniority List during any time of Furlough or Furlough Mitigation unless all Pilots on Furlough have been offered and accepted or deferred a Recall and Furlough Mitigation is no longer in place.”

Originally Posted by Dwwhite06 (Post 3045692)

First off, my thoughts are with any of the pilots that have been and potentially will be furloughed. Odds are that we all either have or will go through this at least once during our careers.

Let me preface this next statement by saying I agree that all avenues with LIFT, outside of liquidating, should be exhausted before pilot furloughs. Put the program on hold, as it is, but it can’t be liquidated unless they plan on refunding tuition already paid into the program. I’m not privy to all the numbers but I would think a hold is more cost advantageous than having to reimburse tuition.

Here’s to hoping it doesn’t get to this point and people get back to flying. Good luck everyone.

Originally Posted by sflpilot (Post 3046001)

Why was anyone giving Republic an interest free loan on flight training?

Originally Posted by deftone (Post 3046367)

Who said anything about giving Republic anything?

The way it works is that a student gets the tuition loan through a 3rd party lender that Lift has an agreement with. These funds are drawn down by Lift in 3 stages as the student progresses. Republic has zero to do with tuition.

Where the Republic payments come into it are when the students become CFI's and begin their loan repayments. At this point Republic kicks in $350 per month as tuition reimbursement.

Originally Posted by Dwwhite06 (Post 3046387)

In my case, I’ve paid in more than what the prorated price would be for a license I have yet to earn.

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Originally Posted by OrthoPilot189 (Post 3054190)

From what BB said during his television interview this weekend, it seems that his plan is to open up the Academy and return it to the same operational status it was prior to the state shut down on schools. It looks like this is what is happening to most of the other flight schools around the country. It will probable be hard to tell these students that they will probable be instructors for a few more years than they thought.

Originally Posted by lightspeed12 (Post 3054351)

I'm a student there. Yes, they are opening this week for sure. And I agree with you, it will probably delay the 3 year program into a 4-6 year program. I'm thinking about leaving and going to a local flight school. I've been there for 5 months and only have 35 hours....

Originally Posted by lightspeed12 (Post 3054351)

I'm a student there. Yes, they are opening this week for sure. And I agree with you, it will probably delay the 3 year program into a 4-6 year program. I'm thinking about leaving and going to a local flight school. I've been there for 5 months and only have 35 hours....