Originally Posted by
Sliceback
AA required TPIC in the last hiring cycle. Plenty of guys had that. Fast forward to 2014 and there are lot of decent pilots who havn't had the opportunity to upgrade. It appears that AA mgt has made the decision to open up the size of the applicant pool by not requiring TPIC for at least some, or a percentage, of the newhires.
Are you sure about that? I know people that interviewed pre 9/11 with ZERO TPIC.
There's also a poster on here (AA73 maybe?) that's stated he didn't have any when hired, was a regional turboprop FO.