Originally Posted by
3Greens
it doesn’t work like that. Virgin will be swamped with experienced pilots with thousands of hours; so extremely doubtful they’ll make you an offer with conditions attached.
The onus is on you to make yourself marketable to virgin and to ensure you meet their entry criteria. Otherwise you will be unlikely to make it past even the first filtering stage I’m afraid.
I thought that might be the case and is supposedly the reason my airline doesn’t allow FOs to take the LST. Historically they were losing too many experienced FOs to other carriers back when the ME3 also required an ATPL. I believe they responded by dropping that requirement. At least that’s how I’ve understood it from talking to my colleagues. I guess Virgin still have the luxury of being picky. Will probably throw an application in anyway. Thanks for all the replies and input folks.