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Old 07-18-2007, 03:02 AM
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John Pennekamp
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I fail to understand why UAL made the flight time portion so difficult. All of the other airlines (or "Air Lines" in Delta's case) accepting applications don't have such requirements, so who does UAL think they are?

Cliff, yes, e-logbooks are real nice for these purposes, but for some of us they didn't exist or weren't practical when we started flying. These e-logbooks only really got practical 5 or so years ago when they hit PDAs. For some of us converting over would have been a ridiculously onerous process, so we didn't.

Regardless, UAL had similar hours sorting requirements last time they hired back in the '90s when everyone had paper logbooks. I recall that the people who actually got hired were the ones making spreadsheets and having fancy tabs in their logbooks. I think United requires this just to weed out the feeble minded.

The "professors" live up to their reputation again.
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