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Old 4th Dec 2009, 20:04
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pilotsama330
 
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PAYG Cadets : Why are they still here?

I'm really surprised that everyone is concentrating on the Astreaus contract, which appears to have been worked out reasonably amicable whilst everyone is glossing over the fact that bmi have made NO MENTION of removing the Pay As You Go cadets.

At any time 8+ cadets on this reprehensible scheme are going to be flying as a First Officer for bmi until they reach 150 hours, some 2-3 months later!!! Meanwhile Company First Officers are at home twiddling their thumbs on standby whilst these cadets take their hours and jobs.

bmi are talking about 129 redundancies yet these cadets will still be there after the bmi staff have been shown the door. This means that 8+jobs could have been saved but instead it appears the company are more interested in protecting the training captains from demotion to line captains, which is not suprising as 90% of bmi pilot managers are also training captains.

The whole scheme is disgusting, bmi are willing to let 8 pilots lose their jobs so they can continue to train and then charge these cadets £40'000 for the privilege of joinging the dole queue with people with 2000 more hours on type.

Surely from a moral if not legal standpoint bmi has to do everything in it's power to mitigate redundancies, surely this is exactly the opposite on every conceivable level?

Surely this scheme should have been finished the day the redundancies were announced???
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