Originally Posted by ghilis101

Your qualifications are solid. Have you been a check airman or mil IP/EP? If you go through the list of whos been hired, they make up a majority of the list, and of course well-networked, meet and greet, relatives, best buddies, flow-thrus etc. Basically, hiring is taking place the way it should (well, flow-thrus can be debated, I wont comment). Its still going to take a while to exhaust that "elite" group. Then it will be open season for the rest of us. Don't read into my term "elite" too much, it is in no way a measure of good pilot vs. bad, or smart vs not so smart. Its just extra boxes you check on an application to help filter through a stack of 10,000. I would estimate theres probably 1,000 or so elites out there. Once theyre all hired, youll see the rest of us get calls. And it will be gangbusters.