Reading the post about most of the check-airman leaving MDA to go and work for JetBlue had me wondering. With such a crappy contract, MDA should expect a high turn-over... JetBlue saw that these guys were Typed in the EMB and Airbus experienced. Awesome, they thought take them all. US Airways eats the training cost and has to train more pilots(mo money, mo money). Don't you think once JetBlue starts getting those 100 EMB-190 in 2005 that they wont hire everyone at MDA..... I am sure they will!!! And most will go!
Here at Piedmont(a wholly owned for some that dont know) we can't even keep a new hire around for 3 months before they are off too Air Wisc. , Comair, ASA, Conex, etc. etc. So US Airways pay 20k to train them and there gone in 3 months. Bottom line, we need to start working on ways to keep our flight crews. We need to redo MDA's Contract, work on a better flow thru with the WO's so new hires see and future. If not, we are just gonna keep dropping millions of dollars a year in training guys/gals that hang around for just 3-5 months. And that is crazy considering I/we took pay cuts to save money. :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
Here at Piedmont(a wholly owned for some that dont know) we can't even keep a new hire around for 3 months before they are off too Air Wisc. , Comair, ASA, Conex, etc. etc. So US Airways pay 20k to train them and there gone in 3 months. Bottom line, we need to start working on ways to keep our flight crews. We need to redo MDA's Contract, work on a better flow thru with the WO's so new hires see and future. If not, we are just gonna keep dropping millions of dollars a year in training guys/gals that hang around for just 3-5 months. And that is crazy considering I/we took pay cuts to save money. :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: