Originally Posted by
Slowmover
OK, I'll bite... new hire, military background, no idea what scope is or why this joke exists. Will someone explain it to me please?
On many occasions before getting hired at AA when riding the Jumpseat and making idle chit chat the pilots would say, you know we’re hiring. That comment has been heard by many regional pilots that have had their apps in at all the majors for many years. It’s not really a joke as a frustrating reality. When I interviewed I was told that there were over 6,000 active applications that had been updated within the past 90 days. It’s a competitive industry and the numbers I’ve seen are only about 10% of the new hires have a civilian only background and were hired off the street outside of a flow-through agreement. That’s less than 100 people per year.