Originally Posted by glennox
To all those who have been complaining about having a RHS to plank their ass in, please shut up. There are still a lot of low houred guys out there who would be quite willing to swap places with all of you. Yes you had to pay for your own TR, so what, the majority of us pay for our basic training also and earn no money for well over a year. Don't try and come back to me with "there were no passengers during your basic training". I suggest if you really want to stick it to the airlines talk young people out of coughing up 80k for the basic training.
There is no doubt that the industry is on an upward trend at the moment and if you don't like FR then quit!! With all due respect to FR they are the only airline in Europe that have been hiring en masse since the industry took a dive so I think they deserve a little credit for that. Yes you get the short end of the stick for a while but after that you'll be on good money and can build enough hours to go somewhere else if you wish.
I am still looking for my first RHS and would happily swap places with anyone in FR who hates where they are.
I'm getting really pi**ed off with these types of threads, if you don't want to work for FR don't f**king apply, leave it to those who want to fill the RHS.
Please read your post and see who is the one complaining, the only difference is that the ones higher up the ladder complain about different things than you, since you have a different point of view. I am sure there are plenty of people who couldnŽt spend those 80K in the initial training, like you said, and wish they were on your position to at least be elegible for a pilot job, and that doesnŽt take away your right to complain... And just let you know, that if I complain its because I can, since a while ago I got called for an interview (based on my cv, since no one helped), passed the assement, made a big economic effort, and got my TR. And If you wish to swap places, note there is a process to get where I am now, it wasnŽt like I woke up one morning and won the national lottery. By the way if you donŽt like to read these posts, its easy, just donŽt!
Sky Goose;
In fact since I finished my TR they have been running around 2 courses per month, which means there is a big and I mean really big pile of pilots waiting behind... Probably after April when the Line trainers have hours to spend, weŽll begin rolling, until then I guess weŽll have to sit back and relax.