Guys lets not forget the credit report. I am sure that it isn't checked at the regionals yet but it soon will become common to check as part of a background check.

In addition a lot of you are banking on the current hiring situation to continue for years to come. I can assure you that change is in the wind. Five years from now I would bet that things will have slowed down considerably (or sooner) at the regionals. There is only so much room in the sky and airlines are already crying "surplus capacity". Back when I got hired at the regionals I had the least time in my class with 3800 hours and was the youngest at 28. Just a few years prior the new hires were C5 check airman and ex-blue angles. Those times are due to return.

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