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Old 8th Jan 2014, 02:26
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Originally Posted by JustPlainCountry
If I get a Airline Transport Pilot License it will allow me to be a pilot for the major airlines Correct?
Yes, as others have noted, the ATP would allow you to fly for the airlines, but you'd still be a long way from being hired at an Major airline. Generally you'd have to have 5,000 hours of flight time maybe more to have a ghost of a chance at getting hired at a Major airline.

Originally Posted by JustPlainCountry
And just wondering, what is needed to be a Freight Plane Pilot? Like for DHL, UPS and such?
The freight outfits flying large airplanes, like UPS, Fed-Ex, Atlas, and DHL's contractors, are all Airlines, which pretty much the same requirements and operating rules as a passenger airlines. It is just as tough to get a pilot position at UPS and Fed-Ex as it would be at Delta or United, maybe more.
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