Originally Posted by
ActiveLooker
Hahahahaha…..they want to hope they only loose 4 pilots a year. Takes them 10 months to train a pilot from what I’ve seen. Mate was on training reserve for almost 4 months.
They’ve never had mass attrition before so they don’t understand the risk of it occurring now. The difference being that they’ve traditionally hired locals (and/or low time guys and gals) and then only worked them about 40 hours a month. The nature of the operation is changing and the lifestyle is going. People will do the basic arithmetic and reason that if the roster is going to suck as much as it does everywhere else they may as well get paid for it or at least work closer to home.
Add to that everyone knew the EA sucked, but spending time with a group of Jetstar and mainline secondees made everyone aware of the exact details of in which ways it sucked. A lot of people are now looking for greener pastures or looking to stick it to the company with the next EA.