Originally Posted by
eaglefly
"I sucked so bad I couldn't get hired off the street".
Now THIS I laughed at. When you cannot refute the message, attack the messenger. You obviously know nothing about my flying abilities, qualifications or the industry during the '90's
I've said the same. It's not an attack, merely an observation. I was in the industry in the 90s also. Don't act like you didn't get hired because no on was hiring. They were. You had to have networked just like today.
IIRC, you went to Eagle in the 80s so you should have had all the boxes checked. Since I'm on the far side of the world with nothing to do this morning, I thought I'd look some stuff up. Here are the hiring numbers from 1995-2000 for the big players. AWA/USA/ALA/ATA/AirTran all hired but I didn't include them.
Delta hired - 2813
AA hired - 3200
SWA hired - 1643
United hired - 4714
FedEx hired - 1474
Ups hired - 861
NWA hired - 2302
CAL hired - 972