Originally Posted by
asacimesp
It's one thing to have a "preference" but when 15/16 interviewees are mil... And the next day is 10/12 when they they make up a small subset of aviation it's a bias.
That's an interesting take. At WAI Delta and United both showed stats for new hires and they each had roughly 45% pure military and 45% pure civilian with the remaining 10% a mixture of both backgrounds. Definitely a military bias in the hiring pool as a whole.