Originally Posted by batuta23
anyone hear about some asian airlines getting busy with the idea of buying the 5 year contracts of PAL pilots so they can be free to join their company and then have the pilots pay thru salary deduction?the bill for a wide body F/O is about US$20,000.a lot of crew would take a second look at the asian job boom knowing they could get a free pass.
The initial batch of CebuPac pilots that trained in Toulouse for the A319/20 were actually offered a similar deal by KINGFISHER right after their final checkride. They declined out of "delicadeza".