Here we go again with all the angst over not getting hired in just over a year of a huge long lasting retirement based hiring wave.

Look, airlines like and will always like mil pilots. Neither mil or civ are any better than the other on average. Not even in the slightest. But what the mil applicant brings to the table from the POV of a legacy HR department is a very high level of consistency as a pilot. Not any better across the board at all, just more consistant on average. That's not just current stick and rudder skills, but more importantly the adaptability and trainability to be melted down and recast into the hiring airline's unique cultural and training style mold.

Again, this does NOT mean that mil pilots are more trainable or that they conform better to an airline's way of doing things than civilian pilots. Just that they are a more consistant product with a much flatter bell curve. Some civ pilots have more problems going from 121 to 121, even in the same plane, than most mil pilots going from single engine single seat to 121 crew. And, again, this is only the average. Mil pilots are consistent. That's all. But airlines love consistency. And yes the mil system is set up around awards and "saftey stank" and pretty much every mil pilot is going to have a degree of that. But so what. Oh, and they network VERY well too. Think about that.

Anyway airlines have hired a LOT of prior airline/regional pilots. A lot. Like around over half I think. At DL it just happens that a large percentage are flows and pref interviews, etc. But the numbers of mil to civ hardly point to unfairness against civ pilots. Civ pilots still have an excellent chance and always will. You will get the chance to earn the same opportunity many civ and mil pilots have earned, and you will get that opportunity ahead of many, many mil pilots still on the outside trying to get in.