“We call on the other major airlines in Australia to train their own pilots instead of simply poaching massively from the regional airlines and the pilot training schools. So far, besides Rex, only Qantas seems to have made any plans in this direction,” said Mr Breust.
Horsefeathers! The other airlines are
NOT poaching REX pilots or any others for that matter. Poaching occurs when a potential employer
actively approaches a prospective employee (often when having received a lead from a current employee), and offering inducements to leave their present employer. As far as I'm aware all the movement in the industry at the moment has been at the initiation of the
employee, so how can it be poaching??
Poaching may be minimised by the making of a counter-offer by the current employer to prevent the employee leaving. It happens all the time in the IT industry, but
never in the airlines.
