UPAS is the name of a USA based pilot database.
For the sum of very close to $160 (£100) they will allow you to enter all your qualifications, experience, education and employers onto their database.
The layout is 100% American and will ask you for your grade school results, your High school major, and all things USA...if you have a European education your details will not fit and your application will be classed as incomplete. This makes your application 'presentation' look below standard.
Having said that, once you have paid your money and entered what details you can, your information will then be 'searched' by many companies - mainly USA ones (so don't bother unless you have green card of citizenship).
Many of the USA 'majors' (TWA, Delta etc.) will ONLY hire direct from the pages of UPAS as it is driven by the USA euivalent of BALPA (the airline pilots 'union').
TWA, for example, have entered into the database their minimum hiring qualifications. If any pilot enters the same minimums (or better) their information is automatically forwarded to Jim Elkan - the TWA recruitment manager. He would then send out an application form and start conversations with regard to interviews.
Again, if you are not authorised to live and work in the USA, forget it. Jim has said, as have all the airline operators, they WILL NOT sponsor work permits.
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