Do you all really care that much if the company sends representatives to, or hosts, “job fairs”?

You do realize this is a result of the litigious nature of our society.

Until the costs get much into my profit sharing, I don’t.

For hiring practice, I don’t care how they find pilots so long as they prove to be capable and willing in that right seat. THAT is the “right stuff”, as far as I’m concerned.

What concerns me is when they don’t meet one of those standards.

All you social justice warriors can prime your flame throwers...

Unfortunately, in rare cases when I’ve flow or trained with a pilot who falls short, that person has disproportionately been a member of a “protected class” - though certainly not in every case.

The first time was an attractive and savy young woman who could not physically handle a V1 cut in a DC-7C, no matter how many times she trained and tried. She was retained because in 1979, “we have to have women pilots and it’s a two pilot plane”....

Maybe these fairs are a good thing.

Hopefully, since the reality of “quotas” exists, maybe these special fairs will encourage enough (I’ll call them special) applicants so Flight Ops and HR have enough choices to sort through instead of hiring the first to apply that meets the legal protected profile.

Flame �� on.