Originally Posted by
Celeste
How's the drive to RDU?
Trans States and gojetz have bases there. I can't speak for GoJet, but RDU is fairly junior at TSA. You should be able to get it shortly after training.
Here's my theory on this: they don't want to pull too many pilots out of the regionals and kill off their feed... so they skim the higher-time (high time being relative) military pilots off the top of applicant pool, (the ones that would be more likely to find jobs flying cargo, dod contract work, work for an LCC, etc, than go to a regional). The mil pilots that are too low time to make the cut to to a regional. Once settled in at a regional, they'll end up in the pool with all the other regional pilots where they won't want to take too many too quickly to prevent choking their feed.
Who knows.. I fly with a freaking b52 guy and he can't even get a job interview. We have c130 guys that are just here.. They are applying.. The one guy that just got picked up at delta... No military, only a year as a captain.. He was the first person to get picked up from delta at my company..
My theory is the companies hiring committee is now run by hr and not by pilots, of which many of those pilots are not military. Therefore the preference of military is waning a bit. Not saying it's not there, but just not what it used to be.