C.A. got it one.
An airline gets so many applications every day, they need something to thin out the stack. Eventually they raise the bar and ask for more such as degrees and diplomas.
You can be Hop Harrigan, Biggles and Jet Crash all rolled into one, but it wont show on your CV or mean a hill of beans to the
clerk shuffling the them to present to the boss, if indeed they are not entered into a database and the results sorted that way against a baseline.
You gotta get on the radar.
Besides it is a fact, that when it gets to be that all the recruiters including that
clerk have degrees, then guess what.
That day is at hand.