Originally Posted by
Nazgul
Dera, I think what is trying to be conveyed is that military pilots can perform during high levels of stress and perform the duties not only in their aircraft but lead a formation as well. These types of things do happen daily for us that fly military aircraft, some this severe, some not. The fact is, operating at this level of stress when your life and the lives of the crew and passengers you are responsible for while flying over enemy territory directly relates to 121 operations. Although not as hostile, but the crew and passengers are just as important in both cases. JMHO.
Not Dera, but I think that different companies also have different preferences based on the stats of the prior hiring.
Take Southwest for example - those guys love corporate/charter pilots. Something like 50 XoJet guys were recently hired there, guys from my last gig (charter) were hired there.
Then take United - on paper they count 135 and 121 the same, in practice huge preference is given to 121 for stable approach to flying vs the 135 goal oriented cowboy attitude.
Regionals started investing into the RW military guys, but, to the best of my knowledge, the majors are holding off for now due to the guys being an unknown quality for now - not enough data for stats.