Originally Posted by
GlobeTreker
Help keep that lie going. Herby Diddle needs new golden ashtrays for the $100 bills they used to light their Cuban cigars with. Being a pilot does not require you have a degree. The airlines that want you to have one only will until the supply of fools dries up. You know, the ones that wasted 4 years of their life and enough dough to buy a house at Riddle or UND. This is a vocational job. And that's an insult to other vocational jobs that actually pay a decent wage.
If you have to wait until your career is almost over to finally get that sweet gig (Major Cpt) is it all really worth it? Most current airline pilot wannabes will NEVER see a major captain seat. That I promise you. History proves me right.
OK I will.
Why don't you list the major airlines (since that is a majorities goal) that haven't hired a large majority of their pilots with degrees in the past - let's say YOUR lifetime.
Not the friend of a friend's girlfriend - not the one in a thousand even who knew the right person and got on without a degree - but the MAJORITY numbers. If you are the kind that likes to play straight-up black 13 on the roulette table then maybe you will eventually win; but your chances are greatly diminished.
A degree will help get you to where the best pay, the best work rules, and the best QOL will reside for a MAJORITY of the people.
What history proves you right? Are you contending that right now (and in some time period that can actually make for an statistical sample) that MOST FO's have never seen Captain?
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