Originally Posted by
FlyTCI
Initials S.W?
Perhaps but I didn't get the name. I was in transit and saw a sticker on the pilot case and struck up a brief conversation. He seemed to be kissing the ground to be back in the States after his overseas tour in DXB.
Relatively few Americans have flown as expats (and even fewer will admit it
).
Seems like training bonds were tried in the U.S. a couple of decades ago but were deemed illegal in some court ruling. Another questionable practice was requiring you to resign a seniority number while you were on furlough from another airline.
I think some folks on furlough from Delta years ago got in trouble at FedEx for claiming they weren't on Delta's list and then taking some post 9-11 Delta bankruptcy payout negotiated by the union.
Anyway, the union tells us that we're not supposed to say that there is a pilot shortage, we are to announce that there is only a shortage of pilots willing to work for substandard wages in the U.S.
Whatever the case, it's been decades since the airline pilot hiring scene has been this vigorous in America.
