Originally Posted by
Di_Vosh
In 2007/2008, Qlink had a 40% turnover of it's pilot group. Mainline didn't want them, so some went to J* (not sure how a group company poaching from the link creates any less training debt than if they go into mainline). Most of the rest went to Virgin, Cathay, and Dragonair.
Dragonair and Virgin were rumoured to have stated that Qlink was the best training department for their pilots; at the same time mainline were rumoured to say that TP pilots couldn't mentally transition to jets.
DIVOSH!
Huh?
Heaps of ex QLink -300/Q400 guys and gals employed into mainline in '07 and '08.
In fact I'd say the majority of those employed around the same time were coming straight off turboprops of various kinds.