Originally Posted by
foumanchu
How many pilots have gotten hired outside of the flow? Was there anything unique about them? Have contacts within? Military? I think if you look at the very small amount of people who got hired out of seniority order, they had one of these going for them. And if they did, they would probably also have a good shot of getting hired off the street. If you do not have something like that going for you, getting hired outside of the flow seems like a long shot.
One or two per class are going outside of flow, which is getting hired off the street (complete interview process).
Of course they have something going on for them! These people aren't just bumps on a log with 8,000 TT, they are also attractive to DL UA etc.
If a WO pilot just wants to "wait" their turn, by all means go ahead. But if that same pilot volunteers, becomes CKA, sim instructor, Chief Pilot, union work, or whatever, it will make their app better and chances of interview much stronger.