Originally Posted by
FaceBiten
We will see a lot more FOs going to majors/LCCs than we are now in the next 2 years. I don't think majors want high time old captains, and high time old captains don't want to go to majors. The trend seems to be that they want younger, moldable, insurable, and safe pilots who aren't set in their ways. Clearly PIC is not an insurance requirement for them anymore.
FO's getting hired at Legacies without any TPIC time is like the one story we've all heard but we've never seen. (A can't think of a better analogy or metaphor than this)
I can call up a handful of guys in my phone at this very moment who have all been hired at Legacies in the last year; they all have had TPIC, plus impeccable backgrounds. (almost half of them have been CKA, bachelor and masters degrees at places such as UCLA, Auburn, Purdue)
I know of several people hired at Jetblue, Spirit, etc with no TPIC.
I think this airlinepilotforum trend of undervaluing TPIC is just flat wrong.