What is wrong with employing people you have known, and trusted, for years ?
The argument that the odd 'founder member' may have no 767 experience is complete bollocks. They all have big experience.
BA have always taken the attitude that if you have the credentials /experience to change fleet/seat then it is a mere formality.
Here, here...I quite a agree.
Setting up an airline has a lot more to it than how many hours you have on the type of a/c they intend to fly. Those professionals involved in the start up team of Zoom are very highly regarded in the industry and very highly qualified to do the job (the pilot management have more ticks in their licences than most would see in a career - regardless of their assumed age or ability).
4 of Astraeus' senior Captains have resigned to go to Zoom UK - and to my knowledge 2 were not B767 type-rated (alebit I suspect they are likely to be a rare exception to the rule of 'type-rated only' wherein in they all have a host of other skills and are already well known to the top-level management at Zoom UK).
I'm sure their previous airlines are missing them already. Also, many of them have a great deal of experience in setting up that particular airline.
Those of you with the cynical comments and negative attitude, why not show some support....Zoom could well be
the place to be very soon, and you might just kick youself.
