The aviation community's cumulative reaction in review....

Starting an aviation program at the high school level is a wonderful idea to expose our nation's youth to the aviation profession earlier and to begin to train our next generation of pilots...

A direct hire program, however, is a crushing blow to the future of the airlines... the whole idea of skipping the interview and screening process allows underperforming pilots access to a multi-million dollar airliner... in short.. keep the high school programs, lose the direct-hire program...