Are there still talks of growth? Or is most of this hiring just to replace the expats heading back to their US recalls? Out of curiosity, is there animosity between the ANA pilots and the AJX pilots?
Well, what we hear from management types is that they want to grow AJX's operation to double its size, haven said that, there is a lot of speculation as to AJX's role in the future but at this time we simply don't know, the only thing that seems certain is that we will continue to be part of ANA's holdings company business strategy going forward but how? Possibility of equipment change in the future? Possible pilot bases? There is only speculation at this point.
I have to say that they treat us fairly well here, it will be naive to think that all the ANA pilots are happy about the existence of AJX, but they are polite and don't really do anything to make us uncomfortable. Let me put it this way, for those that have flown at a regional carrier of a major in the US, you will be treated like royalty in comparison