Originally Posted by
skyxbomb
I was hired at eagle in mid 2007 without an interview and $5000 sign on bonus that I believe was exclusive to my flight school. Granted I'm God's gift to aviation but they've hired a bunch of 300 hour newbies with the ink still wet on their certificates. Real selective huh? All regionals are the same since I see tools from all airlines on apc, mine included.
I'm very familiar with all the "bridge" programs and the like from that time period, and no one got hired without an interview, medical examination, and a thorough investigative background check, no matter how much flight time they had. Standards were lowered eventually somewhat, but to nowhere near the level of PSA or Mesa.
But, yes, tools unfortunately fell through the cracks here like anywhere, but luckily the cracks seem to be narrower here.