Virtually all companies large and small look for the "right fit" in personality. But, alas, let's face it, it IS an imperfect process and in the past especially regarding the "airline pilot interview". Plenty of pilots sign up to get "gouge" and coaching to play the "game" well. Many times that works, but then the true personality reasserts itself sometime after success and as we all know, you fly with a pilot who has made it to the line and............well, you just shake your head and ask yourself *** ?

ALL airlines have that same situation. Most are good people and decent sticks, but one has to be pretty flexible in this profession as the personality spectrum is pretty wide which includes various personality disorders, obsessive-compulsives, micro-managers, various neurosis and even a psychotic or two. I'm sure if each of us thinks back to all the pilots we've flown with there are plenty of ............shall we say "interesting" characters. In a way that's good, because it SHOULD force each of us to consider how others might see us as flying companions in the hope of avoiding ourselves what we see as flaws in others.