I wouldn't say "happy" exactly.

You aren't getting hired without a 4 year degree unless there is something significant in your background. For example, pre-merger 98.5% of all UAL hires had to have 4 year degrees. I'm guessing we've kept that practice post merger.

An example of someone hired without a 4 year degree would be a Naval Cadet (a program from WWII that ended in the 90s) where someone with 2 years of college would go through Navy flight training and then get their wings. They were military pilots without 4 year degrees. Very few of them, but we have a bunch at United. Some of my friends were NAVCADs but no 4 year degree and they are all at airlines.