Originally Posted by
GunshipGuy
I have nothing to back this up other than personal observation, but a possible reason you're seeing a higher number of civilian pilots getting interviews vs mil than you would expect. I think more mil applicants these days are retirees. This is based mostly off of the group of guys I know who are applying; perhaps there are just as many younger pilots coming from the military, but I haven't seen it. So if you're an airline and you have a concern about building a new hire group that consists mostly of 43-45 year olds, maybe you decide to get younger applicants who tend to be non-mil.
In my interview group we had myself and another "young guy". Out of the 6, 2 mil 11 yr separatees, 1 civ pilot (RJ Capt), the other 3 were retirees. There were a few from the day before that were young bucks as well. I'd say there is a smattering of age groups getting hired right now. There may be some more young pilots coming on board soon as they talk about not having a bonus for the Mobility Pilots this year and the Force Shaping programs actually start releasing folks.