I'd be curious to know how many of these *civilian* hires had a military background. In my class, one of the military guys came over after six months at ExpressJet, the other fresh out of training at Frontier. I happen to be in the schoolhouse right now, and my sim parter was hired from Atlas. He was there 9 months, after spending 20 years in the Air Force.

The statistics aren't always what they seem.