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Old 27th Jun 2013, 01:56
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Gnadenburg
 
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Dragonair is now short of pilots. Both Captains and First Officers according to gossip. Our expansion plans have been wound back until we can catch up if you consider this gossip with media releases. CX will help us out by doing more of our flying.

Now, why is this so? Put simply, if we concentrated on command training and direct entry first officers would this have been a problem? Or by sticking with a cadet pilots who hoover up a higher amount of training resources, have we forever missed some of our planned expansion which CX will now take over?

Oh, and a very big congratulations to Management for fixing our command upgrade training by reversing a high failure rate. It has been fantastic to see so many of our pilots actually enjoying their upgrade and getting a lot more out of the extensive training program. If we persisted with such a high failure rate, a lot more of our expansion program would have gone the way of CX or fallen by the wayside. I don't know if the fix was a simple one or more complex, but a genuine kudos to Level 2!

Does anyone know why we persisted with recruiting so many cadet pilots when the direct entry option seems to have made so much more commercial sense, for at least the short term, to meet expansion requirements?

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