I'll repeat, the last time they got TFW pilots was in 2016. The government said back then that they would no longer allow TFW pilots. Sunwing was too busy creating fake Direct Entry Captain job ads, bypassing 75% of internal captain applicants for mostly fake reasons, while they should have been trying to retain their pilots and attracting new pilots instead. In the mean time, the pilots they hired were mostly very low experience, a large number of which have barely started their line indoc quite a few months after being hired.co-joe wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:02 pm I've been pretty against WG and their TFW plan for a long time, but this was the worst possible year to get denied by the feds. The pandemic his WG harder than any other carrier in terms of the percentage of their business that it effected (100%), you could argue that TS felt as much impact but they were able to pivot slightly and do some local flying just to keep the doors open. For WG to go from a standstill a year ago, to last year omicron in jan/feb, to this year full tilt pent up demand rebound, and then get denied last minute...rough. The Libs either want them to be able to pay back the loans or not, this is feeling like they dont even want the money back.
Is Onex on the hook for the 375 Million LEEF then? (Or whatever amount they accessed...)
It wasn't an impossible task to crew the airline, but management made it impossible with their poor decisions.
