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Originally Posted by killbilly  A certain JCer who works for a certain regional told me point blank, face-to-face, that some of the regionals were thinking about ab-initio programs where the pilot was trained from zero-hours by that airline at the airline's cost in exchange for a looooong service contract to that airline.
I'm not sure how I feel about that. At first blush, it sounded like a positive idea, but there are a whole lot of negatives, and I can see it breeding a lot of resentment. Indentured servitude can leave a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. |
That would be an interesting set of circumstances. Did your source happen to mention how long a service commitment might be? It's one thing to sign a 10 year commitment to go to, say, United or American, or to be a military pilot. It's quite another to be commited to a regional for 10 years.
Then again, if the majors start doing it as well, then it kind of balances things out, in that getting an ab initio slot with a major will be just as competitve as it is to get hired with them now.
Interesting times