Originally Posted by LifeNtheFstLne

You are partially incorrect. I have a few friends interviewing at UAL without any turbine PIC time and though 'experienced' they certainly don't have 5,000+ hours of RJ time. And before you speculate, no, they're not women or minorities. They're sharp, well-networked, and good sticks. I hope we hire them. Knowing our recruitment team fairly well, I'm confident they will choose wisely for UAL going forward and cast a wide net.

Originally Posted by xjtguy

Kind of going on my previous comment, agree. The first year or two will be (on average and (excluding the usual other factors) the ultra-experienced. Followed by the very experienced, then simply just experienced.

True, it would be great!!!!! But again, barring the usual outside factors that don't involve flight time, it'll be YEARS before even "high time" regional FO's get a flat out cold call from an airline's HR department. Even BEFORE 9/11 it just simply didn't happen. Although NS did mention that the infamous UAL flight scantron flight time form may include FO jet time in the future. It never happened though.