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Old 9th Feb 2020, 17:49
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bafanguy
 
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A few pilot-related comments from Neeleman re Breeze (Moxy). Still no specifics but rather hints without details. In post #11 in this thread, Neeleman promised "innovative approaches" to recruiting pilots. So far, he''s said nothing about pilot recruiting I find innovative.

Not sure what that last statement means: "procedures" that attract pilots ?:



I asked you last time about the biggest concern you had with launching a new airline, you said it was addressing the pilot shortage. How do you solve this with Breeze?


We are hiring pilots and we are going to create a great bunch of work, so people are going to love flying for us.

It’s always going to be a battle, but we have our own unique plans to create our own pilots as well.

There’s a lot of pilots out there that are great but need to accumulate up to 1500 hours and we are going to help them do that.


You are going to raid the regional airlines out there for pilots and American Airlines, who is getting rid of its Embraer E190s?


A lot of the regional pilots already have the type rating on the airplane, we can create attractive schedules for their quality of life which is what they care about. After you get to captain and seniority, they will be able to go to the A220s.


We have a lot of attractive procedures that we believe will attract a lot of pilots.

https://airwaysmag.com/interview/david-neeleman-breeze/

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