Update to new contract
The moans and groans were heard. But really....
and more importantly is was the one pilot who quit in the middle of the meeting and the others that were on the phone to their recruiters to either end their contract or refuse to the sign the new contract that got the attention of the company swiftly.
The 5k during transition training is no longer in the contract but this does not mean if you are a new arrival that it won't be in yours. It doesn't mean that your re-signing, if any, will not include this provision. You will accumulate normal pay during this training time. Everything else stated remains the same from the previous post.
More important news received that the Embraer contract pilots (the ones from Brazil) are terminated as of July 2013. This does mean that Tianjin is catching up with staffing levels and without the expansion plan of the A330 and nothing slated for new orders of the E190 or A320 the projected slots are being filled. At time of writing the Brazilian pilots contract was moderated to a level comparable to the normal contractors.