Jetgo Blacklist
Jetgo Blacklist
I applied to Jetgo a few days ago. With 10,000 plus hours of large Jet time, training captain, etc, and having agreed to their requirement to fund my own type rating, I was naively expecting my application to get some sort of serious consideration. Instead I got an email back saying that at 61 I was too old for them, as I couldn't fly internationally at 65. I replied that this sounded like age discrimination to me, and I was going to make a report to the Age Discrimination Commissioner. This prompted a further email that I can only describe as an angry rant. It accessed me of threatening to sue them and that they would Blacklist me. This is a cut and paste from this email:
"The fact that a professional pilot has threatened to sue us instead of taking a graceful retirement from a flying role is noted and will be passed on at CEO level to all HR heads at major Australian operators therefore black banning you from Australian Aviation. Your Call
Have a great Day"
This seems all wrong to me. I could only call it bulling and intimidation. I also suspect this has opened the door to the legal issues of Defamation and Damages. I would be very interest to hear the opinions of anybody with legal training.
If anybody thinks this post is just sour grapes, then I can assure them that, yes my grapes are definitively sour after this email, which prompted me to go ahead and file a formal Age Discrimination complaint. Will update this post with developments there.
I get no pleasure from slagging-off an operator that is providing valuable jobs to Australian pilots, but it seems to me, their HR department is clearly out of control.