Hard to be a son ?
 

Hi folks
On a french forum,a guy said that the son of a captain of Singapore airline,United or Delta cannot apply for a job of pilot within the same compagny
Anybody to comfirm ?
Happy new year

I believe it isn't considered to be a plus point in BA either.

nepotism
 

I find that hard to believe. At Air Canada, it's almost a prerequisite.

Lots of Father/son teams in BA and a couple of daughters as well!

Maybe it has changed but back int he day my Uncle made Captain on the 747 at a very young age. Most probably because my grandfather was 747 Chief Pilot for that airline. :hmm:

I believe he was 24 or 25. :}

Not a problem at United. We have many Father/Son and even Daughters working here.

I could name names, but I'd rather not. However, if you would use one of the Newspaper Search Engines that cover newspapers in the US of A you'd probably see recent pix of two pilot crews related. And I can think of of one 727 crew that was all in the same family.

Showing once again it's not the aviation qualifications that count, it's who you blow..... :{ Clearly, I never knew the right people....

Even daughters????!

So you mean there are some pilots who don't chain their daughters to the sink once they reach puberty?

:D

I refuse to enter a debate about me, daughters and the use of chains!!!

That's what days off are for!

I always thought it was considered unacceptable for a crew to be comprised of members of the same family. As I recall due to the risks of one family suffering multiple loss in the event of a serious accident.

(I get the feeling this thread is about to be swamped with examples of fathers / sons / daughters / mothers / grannies et al flying together).

<<Lots of Father/son teams in BA and a couple of daughters as well!>>
Aah but did they let on at the interview? :E

Bigtudor More likely that the CRM aspects of the flight could be tricky, putting both crew members in potentially difficult positions. I remember seeing one such "pairing" in the Friday firelighter and thanking my lucky stars I wasn´t in the air that day. The fathers opening line to the CC on the bus was "Hello, you can call me "GOD (He didn´t let on to the CC that his name was Godfrey) From what I can gather it runs in the genes....