Originally Posted by
Flycameron
That seems like a pretty harsh judgement and I wonder at what age they can determine the trail. Some people have scholarships or daddy's money to get them college while others have to work and get themselves through school. Someone might get married have a family or a death in the family that can change things too. Maybe they don't have community service the last 5 years so they can raise twins and keep the wife from going instance. This is a horrible method in just assuming everyone is the same. Some of the smartest book people I have ever worked with or taught in life tend to be some of the dumbest when it comes to common sense. We all know that the captain with a 4.0 GPA vs a captain with a 3.2 isn't necessarily going to save the world. If the 3.2 guy is so much less then why hire them?
I get it, this all they can really go off of to go through the pool of applicants but to say that this determines the type of person they will always be is an extremely harsh judgement to make.
Delta bases how they hire on performance. They pretty carefully correlate their hiring standards with actual performance once someone is at Delta. If as a example they note pilots from a specific regional airline perform poorly in training at Delta you can expect to see far fewer pilots hired from that pipeline in the future. There are never absolutes but in hiring they are dealing with generalities. If in general a applicant with a 3.5 GPA performs better then one with a 2.3 then they will bias the selection to the 3.5 that does not mean a 2.3 won't get hired however he needs to provide mitigation on why the GPA was low.