Originally Posted by
word302
I think you are heavily underestimating the percentage of foreign students getting training here in the states. Also imagine if every airline hired every applicant 5 years ago. You would have seen 3 to 5 hundred per month at Skywest alone. Times have changed.
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Timetoclimb you are seriously misunderstanding. Today the regionals are hiring any applicant that walks through the door. 5+ years ago they were selective. You had to wait for a call from them and not everyone that interviewed was hired. And the applicants had far more hours and experience than what was required and still not always getting a call.
Now not only are they hiring everyone with a pulse and letting the training department weed out the ones that don't make it but they are giving mass bonuses to hire these barley legally qualified guys (and sometimes not legal because they depend on the sim time that they are getting in training!)