Originally Posted by Probe

Not counting those hired during the strike in 85, I have flown with exactly 1 pilot at United without a degree. Lets call that 1 out of 5000.
Probably more than 5000. That makes it .02 percent.

The reason I know it is one, is I always ask where they went to school/learned to fly.

The one that didn't have a degree spent the whole round trip to LHR telling us how having a degree doesn't make you a better pilot, and that United really needs to hire more pilots without degrees.