Dreamin'
Muss
You're dreamin' about the safety angle old son.
Many good pilots with enough experience to matter have been inducted into numerous quality airlines, worldwide, with no detrimental effect to safety standards of the new or established airline that took them on.
True, a small percentage of such pilots retain a firm hold on their Linus blanket ex-SOP's with annoying and dated "we did it this way in X" comments.
Rarely lasts long.
Fact is, there are many quality drivers around who are willing and able to come home.
Whether Skippy (sounds more professional than Skimpy, don't you think?) takes advantage of that is something I am certainly not privy to.
Are you? Be honest now.
As for decrying 'outsiders' as less safe than Qantas pilots, that's a proven fable.
Compare Cathay Cargo's safety record with Cathay Pacific's.
The former was crewed by new-hires direct into the LHS on start-up as ASL, and that hasn't affected mainline's safety record at all.
Another glaring fact is that Australian are finding it very hard to crew the planes that are required in their business growth plans.
Failure to attract the right candidates is going to see outside recruitment. The former is a safety issue, straight from the horse's mouth, and so it rests with the hiring staff to pick the right people, then train them to Q's way of doing things. Not much to it really, though some would like to think so.
If you add Australian's requirements to Skippy's, with its minimum 23 airframes in a 12 month period, you've got a lot of pilots needed, just like the Cathay Cargo start-up ASL.
Not meaning to be nasty, but dream on; mainline ain't looking good for either the continued Australian growth or for Skippy's start-up requirements.
But hey, I've been wrong before. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, so we'll just have to wait and see.
This is an Outsider's opinion.
Last edited by Life as a journey; 19th Oct 2003 at 13:35.