Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
With that logic, they were ready when they had 250 hours flying Continental passengers in a Beech 1900. They were not even getting paid to do that. They should have skipped Pinnacle and gone straight to Continental or United now.
Hockey;
I didn't respond to your post to get into "it" with you. Neither you or I have control over who DAL hires. In the past, if DAL invited you for an interview, you were deemed "professionally qualified." Now, since PNCL has subverted the (invite) process, I believe that it is up to the interviewee to screw up, not the interviewer to "weed out." I believe it is illegal to interview to a different standard for different groups.
Now IF a person is invited to interview without meeting the professionally qualified standard (which neither you or I dictate), then they are a clean kill in the interview process. I just don't agree that is the case.
I JS on PNCL frequently. They are mostly regular guys. There are some outliers, no doubt. Only time will tell how the interviewing and hiring of PNCL pilots goes...Until the lawsuits begin.
In the mid 90's, some pilots, turned down for the psych eval fought it and won...Something about using the MMPI for a purpose other than what it was intended. They did not get hired at the seniority they would have had, but they did get hired.