Originally Posted by
jcountry
These numbers mean squat.
The only number that matters is the one they give you when you get hired.
I’ll never understand why so many pilots try and talk other pilots out of even trying to get hired. Reminds me of a guy who used to walk around the lounge at my former employer with his list of reasons why airline X wouldn’t hire people who had too many hours, or upgraded too long ago, or blah and blah and such and so..... Literally every airline you can think of, he had some rationale for why no one was gonna get hired anywhere. We pretty much ALL got hired elsewhere.
I always tell guys to apply. Let the company say no. If you never apply the answer is guaranteed to be no.
But it’s the difference between possibility and probablilty.
Do you need a four year degree? No. Proof was UA saying they’d hired 3 out of 1800 without a four year degree. 600:1.
Should you apply? Yes.
Will you get hired? Close to zero chance right now.
Regional guys are getting hired, or were getting hired, at 11-24x times the rate 135/91 guys are/were. If the regional pilot applicant pool is 11-24x as large as the 135/91 guys applying the odds of getting hired are the same.
Add in different levels of hiring requirements at different tiers of airlines and the answer gets murkier.