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JetBlue Shakes Up Pilot Hiring by Training Them From Scratch
JetBlue Airways Corp., breaking with historical practices at U.S. airlines, plans to recruit potential pilots with no flight experience and provide its own training under a proposal awaiting approval from federal regulators. The program would be the first of its kind in the U.S. and would be similar to those used by some European and Asian carriers. Candidates still would have to meet U.S. requirements, including 1,500 hours of flight experience, to be certified as commercial airline pilots,… (www.bloomberg.com) المزيد...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This is not the first time a US carrier has done this....Both Mesa and Delta Express (defunct) have done this....Interested in seeing the cost.
This sound like an excellent idee and will force a better bond between pilots and carrier.
They are going to regret this once they begin to experience all the diversity and affirmative action bs. They would be far ahead to sponsor flight training at some of the best aviation schools like Emory Riddle which would require apprenticeship in a Jet Blue environment hiring the good ones and sending the rest to (...fill in the blank...).
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Flight Instructing is good also. There are a lot of things that really clicked for me when I had to teach others at a Part 141 Flight School.
These pilots usually get a mpl and not a frozen atpl which means that they already know the standards of the carrier.