As part of a new cadre of “Global Engagement Pilots,” Boeing hired 160 to fly with airlines reintroducing the MAX, embedding them for thirty-five-day assignments at an equivalent annual salary of $200,000. They came from Cambridge Communications, the pilot recruitment company based in the Isle of Man—more of the “dirtbag contractors” whose hiring had so infuriated Boeing’s longtime pilots and, in a way, helped create the bad feelings and lousy communications loop that contributed to the whole mess.
