So, I turned off the hire new pilots comfort function for the first time on an airline, and I'm doing the dance that is trying to train new pilots cheaply.
If there are no unemployed pilots for any of the plane types Ive ever flown, then I have to pay 5-8 weeks salary to train them, right?
My question is this: is this based off of country average, or off your salary?
For instance, I operate three models, but I *have* operated five models. I don't use the Dash8 anymore. If I were to drop the wages for Dash8 pilots to $1, then hire Dash8 pilots, then retrain them, would that be cheaper than just hiring the type that I want?
It goes by the country average, not what you actually pay them. Same with severance pay if you fire them.
So I have a related question, or rather I'd like to check if I understand correctly. Is anything wrong in the following?
I have a lot of pilots in a plane category I'm phasing out at the moment. If I fire them I pay 12 weeks' (country average) salary, whereas if I re-train them I pay half of the training cost, i.e. 2.5-4 weeks. So I'm much better off re-training them to a new category than letting them go and hiring 'new' pilots, even when they are abundantly available on the market, right?
Hi,
I don't think you pay 12 weeks when you lay off staff, it's is closer to 5 or 6 weeks. Fire one pilot and check the post "severance payments" to know exactly how many weeks you have to pay him.
If you have a 100 wide body pilots, it may be cheaper to retrain them for Cessna's and then fire them :-)
I usually retrain pilots. But that is habbit rather than a calculated move.
Jan
thanks. I'll have to calculate more carefully then.