Originally Posted by MikeF16

You're right on. Involuntary staff work vs. voluntary business decision are apples and oranges. They want guys who want to fly.

As a side note, there have been very few training failures but the few they've had have mostly been due to 2 reasons (this is all 2nd hand info, I am NOT in the training department, just spent a lot of time around it recently).

1. bad attitude
2. lack of recency

The attitude is easy, I don't know how somebody could screw this up after landing such a great job but apparently it happens. The other issue they supposedly had was guys coming off long furloughs who did something other than fly. I do not know how well the left hand talks to the right and if this training issue has percolated its way into hiring decisions.