despegue - The only people who take that job are the ones willing to accept that job and pay which is why they are offered. Which is why we have given them feedback on salaries and why they are not acceptable from the feedback we have received from Captains I have approached.
We don't charge fees until someone starts and we can't force someone to accept a job. Doesn't work like that. It is called contingency based recruitment and therefore if no one gets a job we don't charge a fee. As I wrote before, we are not a crewing agency so we don't decide the salaries and we are not given a budget by the operator and we decide what we pay flight crew.
Last year, we didn't place one pilot with them because we could not find anyone willing to go for those salaries, but I am sure they must have found them somewhere which is why they are offering them again. We only placed cabin crew with them last year and their pay was on par with other similar operations so it wasn't such an issue. We have placed pilots elsewhere with very good salaries and of course that is the best scenario!
It is a shame but if people accept these conditions then they will continue to be offered by certain companies.
I was just giving my input on how my company works. I cannot comment on other crew management agencies etc as that is not my business. Our main business revenue comes from management placements and the executive aviation market where Pilots & Cabin Crew are paid very well. As Hawker 800 wrote in this thread, VVIP Flight Attendants are paid more and I know we have VVIP clients who pay Flight Attendants over $5,000USD/month + acc etc.
Last edited by LimitlessRK; 7th January 2016 at 14:12.