You guys are soooooo naive!
Any
relatively expensive pilot that leaves a low-cost airline will be quickly replaced by a cheaper one!
There are tons of 737 rated EU pilots out there, working for peanuts for some kind of dodgy airline (ex. Indonesia) who would love to come back to Europe. On top of that, there are plenty of unemployed pilots out there, who would love to jump at the chance to make a deal with the devil and pay for their own type rating in order to get some "valuable" (?) jet time in return. "Valuable" of course has quite a relative meaning, because the only thing it allows you to do is eventually do the same thing that this topic is about
: either, leaving Europe for the Middle East, or jumping from one lo-co to the other. (same
, different name)
I'm sure managers like it when people are leaving. From any airline management's perspective there are just basically two limitations;
1) how fast can you train the new hires to replace the ones leaving, and
2) keeping the attrition rate to a certain level so that crewing levels don't fall below an absolute minimum.
To the ones leaving for the Middle East for a bigger, shinier jet: good luck!
