Pilot Charge
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 6:15 am
Hi Flyers!
An airline CEO suggested a feature where all aircraft transfers would be paid by the pilot who last flew the aircraft instead of the airline, even if the pilot had quit the airline. It seams he wanted all his aircraft at the fleet head quarters and was not pleased when a pilot would fly from base and then abandon the aircraft there.
Personally I think the request is a bit too harsh and a bit to narrowly focused on aircraft
transfers. I could see CEO's using it to punish pilots who left the airline. Of course the CEO's who read this forum would never do that, were all too mature for that, but there are those who would. Conceptually our airlines are corporations and can't compel ex-employees to pay them without legal action.
An alternate suggestion I had was to make something more general, If a CEO feels a pilot has done something where they need to pay back an airline, say abandon a plane somewhere, damaged it some how, purposly waisted fuel, been rude to other pilots, etc,, they could "request" the pilot pay a certian amount back to the airline, the request could be either optional or manditory. The pilot would then either accept or refuse the request. if the request was manditory and the pilot refuses, they would be kicked from the airline.
I though of the 'optional' request as a way that pilots could re-invest back into their airline, sort of a reverse 'tip' so pilots could earn a bunch of money at one airline then go off and use that to start another.
Just wondering what everyone thinks of this idea.
An airline CEO suggested a feature where all aircraft transfers would be paid by the pilot who last flew the aircraft instead of the airline, even if the pilot had quit the airline. It seams he wanted all his aircraft at the fleet head quarters and was not pleased when a pilot would fly from base and then abandon the aircraft there.
Personally I think the request is a bit too harsh and a bit to narrowly focused on aircraft
transfers. I could see CEO's using it to punish pilots who left the airline. Of course the CEO's who read this forum would never do that, were all too mature for that, but there are those who would. Conceptually our airlines are corporations and can't compel ex-employees to pay them without legal action.
An alternate suggestion I had was to make something more general, If a CEO feels a pilot has done something where they need to pay back an airline, say abandon a plane somewhere, damaged it some how, purposly waisted fuel, been rude to other pilots, etc,, they could "request" the pilot pay a certian amount back to the airline, the request could be either optional or manditory. The pilot would then either accept or refuse the request. if the request was manditory and the pilot refuses, they would be kicked from the airline.
I though of the 'optional' request as a way that pilots could re-invest back into their airline, sort of a reverse 'tip' so pilots could earn a bunch of money at one airline then go off and use that to start another.
Just wondering what everyone thinks of this idea.