Originally Posted by gloopy

There's a myth going around that DL has a hard or soft flight time maximum. I don't think thats true. Anecdotaly, most pilots hired will almost always have a lot less than that. The military pilots are usually way less than that, and most civilian pilots are too. I saw one stat on average times from the last year of hiring.

The least was about 2300 hours. The most was over 25,000 hours. The average was over 8500 hours. When you consider how many mil pilots DL is hiring and how the majority of them probably have well under 5000, to have an average of 8500 requires a lot of greater than 10,000 hour pilots.

I don't think its a negative at all. Reports that it is are greatly exagerated.