Originally Posted by
Pilottim79
Couldn't agree more. Talked to a United guy who came out of training recently. He said average new hire at United is 45 with 14Kish total time and 7Kish TPIC.
Do you need TPIC to be hired at a major? No. Will everyone else be hired in front of you that has TPIC? Likely.
To expand on this, we have over 13,000 applicants in the airline apps pool for UA. Captain's from Jetblue, World Airways, and some others have recently come in for meet & greets. I personally have written an LOR for a friend who's an A330 CA at Emirates. If things stay status quo with deliveries, etc then we will be hiring 60 per month for the foreseeable future. As soon as management makes a decision on the 100 seat aircraft then we will most certainly increase hiring.
We are seeing some folks with 0 TPIC getting hired but they are few and far between. Most likely they are former interns, etc.