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Old 20th Jan 2018, 14:39
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Originally Posted by bafanguy
A bit of a rhetorical issue but I'd still like to hear the back story on this rather bold statement from Alaska Air re Horizon pilot headhunting. I've not seen anything about it since its original appearance. If they'd done this, it'd certainly be newsworthy:

"He said Alaska Air is in discussion with “a major international airline” about a plan to have prospective pilots go overseas, “operating under different rules,” and build up their 1,500 flight hours flying for the foreign airline in a Bombardier Q300 turboprop, an earlier variant of the Q400, then returning to the U.S. to fly for Horizon."

http://www.seattletimes.com/business...into-the-fall/
I guess it could be somewhere in Australia or New Zealand, the link is broken by the way.
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