Originally Posted by Airbus Girl
Does your airline ever chop pilots in line training, even if they cannot fly the aircraft?
Yes, but just the ones that don't bribe the VP flight ops.
Originally Posted by Airbus Girl
Airline managers need to take a longer term view (as always).
Why? The only thing that airline manager needs to worry about is the size of his bonus at the year end. One neat trick if you're HR manager is to make your employees pay for their trainning, write nice annual report about it, claiming huge cost reductions and collect nice sum for doing such a outstanding job. If company survives, change job and let your successor clean up the mess. If not, there will always be a couple of vacancies for such an efficient manager and not just within the industry.
My top HR honcho came in from dairy industry. Two years on the job and he still doesn't understand meaning of the phrase "type rated". I can't hold it against him, pilots are only such a small part of the empire he oversees.
