Re: \"Just like the airlines\"
Tired,
Oh....you MUST be part of Pan Scam administration, I know this is a petty complaint, but this is about the third time you have got my screen name wrong, even after I have corrected you in the past. Can you not read? Again, a petty, but prime example of how Pan Am really listens to its students, hell you can't even get a freakin name right !!!
You are correct that it is not hard to leave Pan Am, just sign the paper and out you go....simple. Simple for Pan Am, not so simple for a student. Yes, you are correct, there are quite a few schools nearby that are more than willing to accomodate ex-Pan Amer's, I looked into a lot of them myself. Do you know that every single school had a few Ex-Pan Amer's attending? You say that a student will not have to take out another loan....that depends on the school and their affiliation with Key Bank. Some offer it, some don't. Why are so many students EX- Pan Amer's? One really has to ask why? There is definately something going on at that place, it may not affect everyone there but it affects enough people that word is getting out.
Why, you ask, are there so many people that are negative about Pan Scam???? Could it be that they run a shady business ethic? They lure you in with new A/C and fancy new facilities with the additional reassurance that they will get you "Further, Faster, for Sure". Thats the biggest hunk of B.S. that I have ever heard in my life. Pan Am preys on people who have big dreams. Pan Am's most precious victims are the people who have never really been around aviation but have big dreams and are willing to make the big step in persuing those dreams. Unfortunately, these people, not unlike myself, aren't really informed of what they are getting into. They don't know what questions to ask and they don't know who to believe. By the time these people see what this school is really about, it is too late. They have already spent a lot of money and a lot of time, then they have to make the decision of who gets the remainder of their money. Should they continue at Pan Scam because if they bug out, it will cost them, or should they take the loss and go to another academy and risk getting reamed in the poop chute one more time?
In my humble opinion, Pan Am gives all the other academies a black eye. They have no business ethic at all, and an attitude to boot. "If you don't like it, you can leave".
The real people that work at Pan Am need to send a message to the "thugs" at the top. There is a growing number of students that aren't happy and changes need to be made. A few of your disgruntled students are extremely opinionated and boistrious and intend on getting the message to as many people as possible.
I, myself, wish the demise of Pan Am because the academy gives aviation and aviation academies like it a bad name.
Since it is so darn easy to leave Pan Am, it wouldn't be too much of a problem for students to go elsewhere if Pan Am were to go under. There would be no student suffering, unless you are refering to the trouble of having to find and attend another school, which was the basic idea of your original post. Yes, it would be extremely self satisfying to see Pan Am close its doors. The benefit would come from "weeding out" the bad apples of aviation academies and boosting overall morale throughout the aviation community and bringing a good name to aviation academies as a group.
As far as getting any of my money back, I got some back, not enough for all of my trouble however. I just hope the few thousand they bled me for, was worth the bad publicity.
This post is getting too long and I am tired so I will shut up for now...there is a hell of a lot more to be said. I do apologioze for the ranting. Some things just hit that one nerve that gets me going.
