Originally Posted by
FaceBiten
Probably because the majors haven't been hiring in the last decade. Now that they are, the first to get hired are the high time guys with resumes that set them apart. And military. And well connected people.
Why then would they lower their minimums? To propagate the pilot shortage rumor and seem more attainable for people considering aviation as a career?
The folks I have talked to seem to all say the same thing. The whole resume is what counts, not the flight time portion.
At the end of the day, everyone wants the same thing. Good pay and benefits, good schedule, and good treatment by management. How we get to that end state varies for everyone. We can debate the TPIC and its merits ad nauseum, but at the end of the day, an 8k hour FO whose seniority can't hold captain and an 18 month upgrade captain with 8k hours and a bunch of TPIC have been doing the same job, alternating PF/PM duties, but for more pay and debatably more responsibility. But whole crews are violated and held accountable, not just the captain, and we all have to have pic types and ATPs and meet the same standards for checkrides, so I give little credence to that notion. And I think majors agree, hence their dropping tpic from mins.
The legacies have not changed their requirements just so they can hire low time first officers.
They have dropped certain requirements so that the certain exceptions can be hired.
The is NO pilot shortage at the majors.
At the regional level alone, there are 5-7k worth of experienced CAs each having 3k + worth of TPIC trying to move on.
I was trying to understand why you seem to be so miseducated, I read some other posts and realized that you're a C-152 CFI.
Thanks, I just got my daily LOL.
Probably would be helpful to do a couple years actually working in the industry before you give advice.
Or maybe an initial training experience and IOE to humble ya a little. Don't ya think?