AC and Westjet asked resignations also but no bonds. Sunwing wanted bonds AND resignations.florch wrote: Both are common, enough, and I'm not here to argue the merits of either. I just heard - second hand only, I'll say right off the bat - that some Transat guys refused jobs offered by SW when they were required to resign as a condition of employment. This is a little different than the story that's going on here that AT guys were being ignored for jobs. There is also the inconvenient timeline issue of the AT pilots being laid off too late to be useable by SW by the time hiring and training needed to be commenced.
So where does the truth lie?
I also heard that some AT pilots refused in that last batch of hiring.
As for last fall. AT Transat laid off in two batches: Oct 1 and Nov 1.
Nine of Sunwings extra aircraft, so over 100 foreign pilots' worth, only arrived in Canada in December, the last on Dec 19. There was not time to train A-310 and A-330 drivers on the 737 between Oct 01 and Dec 19 ?
Two weeks of ground school. Four weeks of Sim, and 25 hours of line endoc (3 round trips to the DR or Cancun) is what it takes.
This could have been done if there had been a will. But I think that Sunwing only gets to lease the 737s from Europe on the condition that they also hire the European pilots. What will TUIfly, Thomson, Travel Service, Arkfly do with their 737 pilots all winter if they dry lease all of these aircraft to Sunwing without pilots ?(e) Transition Line Indoctrination - Requirements
(i) transition line indoctrination shall be conducted under the supervision of a training pilot;
(ii) during transition line indoctrination, the pilot-in-command and second-in-command shall perform their duties in their respective position. Where the transitioning pilot has completed at least 2 sectors as pilot flying and has satisfactorily demonstrated to the training pilot that he or she is qualified to perform the duties of the position, the training pilot may occupy the jump seat;
(iii) Sectors Requirement
(amended 1998/09/01; previous version)
Transition line indoctrination requires:
(A) the pilot to complete 4 mandatory sectors, 2 sectors of which to be performed as pilot flying and 2 sectors as pilot not flying, or 3 sectors as pilot flying and 1 sector as pilot not flying;
(iv) Flight Time Requirements
(C) Aeroplanes With Turbo-jet Engines
(I) 25 hours; and
(II) after completing the 4 mandatory sectors, the remaining time may be reduced by 1 hour for each additional sector flown to a maximum reduction of 12.5 hours.
