Originally Posted by
Ollie Onion
I was chatting to a Senior person at Air NZ last week and was told they are facing a recruitment crunch. He said that quite a few people coming from the Turbo Props are struggling with the Jet transition and the company is rapidly coming to the conclusion they will have to recruit external candidates onto the A320 to keep up. I asked about the recruit to group and he said they had got around that before and could again if required.
We all knew this would happen, we all knew who the trainings risks were, but the RPP chose to ignore everything and give every T-Prop Pilot, effectively seniority rights into Jet.
As such, the 35 year old, ATR/Q300 Captain, with 7-10 years in the Links now, has to wait for some disgruntled Captain with 3 failed interview attempts already to then fail his/her Type Rating and hope Air NZ doesn’t turn away from Link Pilots again before he/she gets their first look in.
Who could have possibly thought this was a good idea? Oh that’s right, the Regional Council who basically wrote their own pathway.