QantasLink Level 2 Cadetship and age.

[Gearupandorrf]

Hey guys and girls,

Although it's illegal do discriminate based on age, are there any examples of people being accepted in their early 40's?

I've got a CPL/ MECIR and all the ATPL's done, but life has taken me down a different road which means that I still have less than 500 hours TT. Having said that, I have significant industry experience in Flight operations at Airline level and theory instruction.

If mature age applicants aren't representing a reasonable percentage of successful applicants, why would this be?

Does age incorporate an element of an applicants' "competitiveness"?

Cheers,
Gearup.

[NowThatsFunny]

Why don't you just apply????

[dwpegasus]

Also curious if this is a factor? I wonder if this was asked during the QLINK roadshow in September. I didn’t attend, but heard they were informative.

[pilotchute]

The older you get the more of a training risk you appear to be. When I was in my early 30's and still starting out I stopped putting my DOB on the CV and it was surprising how many more responses I seemed to get.