Obviously we can only take Silver Fleet at his word about the quals and that there's no red flags on the app...but assuming he has attended a job fair or two or three over the last several years, what else would you have him do? College degree with a 4.0, LCA... Get some volunteer time, maybe (assuming it isn't already there)? The biggest thing I can think of is to get the apps scrubbed professionally if not done recently.

But if I understand the application process well enough, all the places he applied to save for Delta use computers to pull the highest scoring apps at the time based on whatever scoring system they have in place. If that's the case, then wouldn't it be that the way you "play the game" with the computers is to maximize your score by checking as many boxes as possible? (Honest questions from someone applying soon.) It just doesn't jive to me that a guy like this needs to "play the game" more and it may be that his stats (age, hours, etc) aren't what the scoring logarithms are looking for. But please someone tell me if I'm way off base here.