Originally Posted by
swamp
All you haters need to stop hating, the mainlines have minimums just a tad north of most regionals minimums, because they don't have enough applicants with 1000 TPIC and a 4 yr degree like SWA and FedEx are getting.....
No, all the majors including places like spirit and VA, have thousands of resumes from RJ Captains with plenty of TPIC and a degree.
The ONLY reason some airlines have lower mins is so they can, at their discretion and to suit their purposes, hire the occasional non-competitive applicant when they want to. This would include affirmative action and those with VERY, VERY good internal connections (children of senior managers).
No average RJ pilot is getting hired without TPIC.