I'll tell you what the airlines don’t want; people with no social skills. Who wants to site next to a pilot for 8 hours and talk about the current UK education system??! No Thanks!
Thats great, but what if the other pilot sitting next to you for 8 hours does want to talk about education, politics, how much tax he/she has to pay? It happens all the time. You don't always get to fly with similar people who share your love of beer and football. I spent 10 hours yesterday in the cockpit listening to my colleague bitch about his ex-wife.
I think a few people posting on this thread have demonstrated they have no idea about how the airline industry works, and those attacking
Mikehotel152 clearly have no concept of what it is like working in a multi-crew flight deck. Social and communication skills include being able to grin and bear the fact you have to spend a whole day operating an a/c with someone you don't particularly like at all.
MikeHotel sounds like the last person I'd want to share a flight deck with.
A career FO in the making.
What makes you qualified to judge?