Originally Posted by
brkn
thanks for your reply and I am sorry for the confusion but i am certainly not american. I did not give any details about flight time etc. because there is not a lot of info about that and you just start as a FO approximately 18 months after starting date of the program so I don’t think it really matters. I am mostly worried about age related problems as I get older. That’s why I am asking if it would be possible to have an office role after a certain age using the business degree I have. Thanks for your help in advance
The majority of airlines (at least in Europe) offer multiple office based roles which you can combine with your flying career. That could be in things like flight safety, fatigue monitoring, flight ops technical and probably a million other things that I've never even thought about. For most of those you don't need a degree or even any real experience, just a good level of knowledge about the role you're applying for.
I assume, however, you are talking about management jobs, or even something completely unrelated to flying. You do need a degree in most cases for something in management, a business one might help. At a lot of airlines, those come with 0% flying rosters, meaning you only fly for currency (maybe once a month) and the rest of the time you're pulling your hair out in the office wondering how on earth the whole place doesn't fall apart. There's a reason most of us want to avoid being a management pilot, but it does have the potential to be rewarding.
As an aside, be very wary of anything that is "automatic" or "guaranteed" in aviation. As many of us have found out the hard way and more have yet to, that is rarely the case.