Originally Posted by
Twin Wasp
When the ADA was passed in 1990 airlines were left to explain why they could deny a job to an applicant who met the government standard for the job. Delta used to require 20/20 uncorrected. The FAA says only that your vision must be correctable to 20/20. A 20/70 person could sue for job discrimination as long as their vision was correctable to 20/20.
The issue here though is someone NOT correctable to 20/20, but potentially with a statement of demonstrated ability for flying with one eye 20/20 and the other 20/30.
On their jobs page American Airlines still lists as a qualification:
Distance vision corrected to 20/20 and near vision corrected to 20/40 or better in each eye
In ADDITION to:
Valid First Class medical certificate
https://aa.pilotcredentials.com/inde...qualifications
Whether that additional medical requirement would be defensible under the ADA is a very good question, the difficulty being someone would have to PROVE they didn't get the job because of their SODA.
I doubt the selection committee would be stupid enough to admit that was the case and the applicant would instead simply be given the TBNT letter everyone else gets who for whatever reason simply wasn't selected.
Inevitably though,American will get such applicants through the wholly owned flow programs though,and at that point I think they will back down and just accept any of those with a valid first class medical.