Originally Posted by
Rhino12
The GPA stuff is ridiculous. Pretty soon they will be needing guys so bad the only requirement is that you have seen an airplane in your life.
I know it is what it is -- but really? Your HS or College GPA? It's like all these airlines are picking folks to send them into space.
Its not rediculous at all. Its part of who you were and who you are. It helps tell your story of how you got to this moment and helps fill out your trend vector. Just because they use it and give some amount of impossible for us to know credit to those with higher grades doesn't mean they only take straight A students. DL has in all hiring cycles hired plenty of two point something averages from school.
But if you barely graduated high school…and you barely graduated college…and you haven't been doing much of anything outside of showing up and flying the line, then there's a good chance you'll probably have to wait until a few thousand others are hired before you.
Likewise, if you're a 4.0 goody two shoes brainiac who rescued a bus full of kittens on the way to the interview, you still have to pass the Jedi trials before the Council agrees to train you.
Capice?