. . . what i know is, it's the same way on the Polar side of the house -- at least for now.
Polar selectively hand picked their FE's to -400 FO's when Polar retired their classic's a few years ago. Selection of all pp licensed Polar fe's was to have been made by committee, but decision actually made unilaterally by the (then) Chief Pilot. At that time as a Polar fe, I had held an ATP with a B-737 type rating (however only 300 hrs jet sic, the rest was old pp time). "Get a job somewhere, then get a few months of recency pilot experience, and reapply", the CP had told me (as if anyone could go anywhere and pick up an av job, or was carrying a Learjet in their back pocket). . . . . Perhaps I would have been better off at Atlas . . . Anyway, still on the street today with the rest of the 1,000 airline industry furloughed's. . . . . After 25 years in this beloved business, I must have proved to be too stupid.
Last edited by ship's power; 18th May 2010 at 19:12.