Originally Posted by
MKUltra
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.
I don't know if I would preference for military pilots has waned that much. If you look at the hiring stats delta and united alpa has published for 2016 both companies are hiring slightly over 50% military. No way 50% of those 10k apps on file are military.
But you are spot on about these hr folks doing the hiring. At least with people at my airline, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to who gets the call. We have senior captains and check airman that have done multiple job fairs and have 8000tt that can't get the call, then you see an FO with less than 3000tt get the call., but they had a Masters degree with a high gpa
... Doesn't make sense.