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Old 1st Sep 2002, 11:59
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There has been talking about fifteen pilots to be taken as D/E.
Yes, one can speculate about a harm it causes to rivals in Finland.
IF, once again IF, AY hires 15 jet pilots from, let's say Finnish regional carrier which is well connected to somebody. We could call rival company for example as AirJumbolino
AirJumbolino has, let's say 60 jet rated pilots. 15/60 means 25% and that is a big loss. Again, if ten out of fifteen are captains and five are first officers. Training a qualified captain takes lot of money and more important a long time, training a F/O takes lot of money. In both cases you also need to find all those pilots...
If AirJumbolino has six crews for one plane it means that fifteen equals to seven crew and loss of seven crews means grounding of one aircraft immediately or reducing usage of aircrafts, no good.

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