Originally Posted by
erjpilot
I am shocked that there are so many people surprised that UAL hired an FO? I know several FO's that have been hired at UAL in the last few months. They are all white males with civilian RJ experience only (non-interns, no family at UAL). Of course they have 4 year degrees and multiple internal recs but UAL hiring FO's is not a big surprise.
This is something that happened frequently at CAL in the past.
UAL is not concerned with hiring the most qualified-competetive pilots like DAL, SWA, FDX, etc. is.
Anyone who also knows about UAL hiring please feel free to back up my points.
There was a time when UAL was madly in lust with interns. As in automatically hired at bare minimum quals, which back then were around 300 hours TT. Shuffle office papers for 3 months in the summer in school and jump ahead of 10+ years of competitive quals. There was at least one who got to land an actual 777 (ferry/mx/etc flight) with a wet commercial and no training just as an office perk.