Originally Posted by
Dave Fitzgerald
Sorry to burst your bubble. I was hired April '87. There were several in my class that had less than 1000 hrs, in fact one only had 650. I was in the first group to be interviewed after the pool of interviewies were used from the strike.
The 650 person had a very rough time getting through but we did have a lot of other experience in the class with some prior heavy time. In the end, we got everyone though, and a lot of instructing on our own to do it.
Our 727 FE class was the shortest in UAL history--which didn't help any. Right after our class, UAL announced that they had lost the EEOC discrimination hiring law suit. Everything changed. I'm sure our class was impacted by the "new requirements."
Well Dave if you read my post it was a response to the writer who posted United hired 250 hour pilots. Additionally you confirmed what I wrote, most had at least ATP and the bottom you experienced was 650 hours. When I was hired in 78 the lowest time person (a woman) had 850 or so hours and I'm sure there were others with slightly less, but not many. However, as you confirm the minimum allowed in the app was 350 and even the interns had more than that.
I was an LCA on the 737-200 in 95 and the lowest time F/O new hire I checked out was an intern with around 650+ hours.
So you didn't bust a single bubble at all you confirmed what I posted.
Thank you very much.
To the other poster:
Now were the 570 ever scabs? How many times does this have to be answered? NO! I believe only two actually crossed the picket line.