Originally Posted by
dr dre
The experience levels and backgrounds of new recruits have changed throughout the years, if at one point jet experience was a negative it certainly isn’t now. As once upon a time being ex Eastern or Sunnies Dash 8 was almost an automatic rejection, now that’s not the case.
With about 5x as many applicants as recruits needed a lot of pilots are going to get rejection letters. Now if by chance one pilot and their mates from a particular background unfortunately all get rejection letters it may seem there’s an organised conspiracy to not recruit them, that simply isn’t the case. It’s usually just co-incidence.
Mainline, like any carrier, just want to recruit people who they know are likely to pass training and not incur further costs there or at any point in the future.