He 's gone back to his previous company and they didn't seem to be too concerned.
Airlines carry out their own assessments, the "phone call" (in Europe in particular) is made for airport security Id requirements, proof of experience and to ensure you haven't bent one in the past. Most airlines would have you start tomorrow if they could and don't give a flying
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k what your previous CP thought. The bigger outfits have their recruitment panels that might or might not include "the CP", Flight Ops Manager these days.
Intimidation tactics like these might have worked in places of limited opportunities like oz and nz where most spent their first 10 of 18 years in the business flying around 210s, 402s, kingairs and the rest.
Those days are long gone.