Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
You are well familiar how the airlines selected and treated the redundancies. In particular the stories from around the sandbox shared here are shocking, but most likely not that obscenely worse compared to what has happend elsewhere too.
I smell incompetence and arrogance with a bit of bullying to cover anxiety among peers and in front the higher-ups, not wrongful intent per se. In that case, the hiring process actully cannot be any different.
Wish you will soon find an employer who can see it your way. There are places, however, where out of recency for more than 12 months becomes a serious and costly headache. As long as the operator has a choice of who to pick, don't blame them.
(After all, the smart, tactful and intelligent people went to become pilots anyway, right?)
Well the employer doesn’t have to see it “my way”, it just doesn’t make sense to have a 12 months recency criteria and not considering sim activity. I can understand if somebody’s left the industry for quite some time to do something else, but if a pilot is actively engaged in sim training and checking its just plain ridiculous. It’s up to us in the industry to change this kind of mentality. Sooner rather than later many of us will have no flights in 12 months, so only those with a job and fly the line will have the chance to apply for any vacancy... total madness.