Hawker750 (post 250) - 'nail on the head' stuff
A no-hope offering is not always a positive for pilots.
How many companies fail but have paid all their dues to pilots before closing??
How many times do we read of pilots owed for company spend put on their personal credit cards?
How many times do pilots fly with 2 months salary overdue unpaid in the hope that it'll work out in the end...?
Wake up!
Many clients are very green when they first encounter private jets, but be sure that these intelligent (rich) people, learn very quickly, and when they get stuffed on a private jet deal, that's another dissatisfied user that our industry has working against it. Ask the man who bought a Global Exp last year for $51m and who finds it's worth $33m today, whether he wishes crazy start-ups well.
REAL jobs are handed out by real companies that face the real issues head on and try to make a living out of a very tough industry which tends not to allow much profitability. Pprune is archived full of the machinations of failing aviation companies who promised long and delivered short - stuff of dreams
Meanwhile us old-timers have seen all these 'get rich quick' scams far too many times to feel pleased that 'yippee - here are more pilot jobs being created'.
If the
PR looks unbelievable...it probably is. Or put another way, if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, walks like a duck, it probably is a duck.
Wishful thinking won't get you anywhere - look for reality or you're likely to get hurt.