Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
I don't think Delta has a 1,000 TPIC requirement do they.
Good friend of mine was hired with less, but he had an outstanding background as an Instructor at Delta, then several thousand hours of SIC on jets. His problems was Delta kept recalling him into ground management jobs every time he would be ready for upgrade, so he gave up his seniority, twice, to return to management positions.
Sounds like a good problem to have and not the norm for 99% of us. It is not a paper requirement at DAL but when your applying against 10,000 people who do have it the reality is that DAL, UAL, LCC, FDX, SWA etc all hire on average people with >1000tpic. Again, if you know people in mgmt or if you just so happen to improve workplace diversity then chances are better that you can get hired without it.
As it relates to the whole pncl discussion, this quasi-requirement results in pilots who are going to feel that they are not marketable without that number, and without currency they also wont be as marketable at the regional level. I think those kinda considerations affect the way people vote.