I got to throw in with you on this one. A whole lot of really weak correspondence and online courses were created to provide master’s degrees for guys who simply wanted to make 0-4.

In fairness, they were less of a pain than SOS in residence. But those degrees were often pretty much just a square filler, devoid of real substance. It didn’t matter that they were, it made you as competitive for promotion to field grade as someone with a meaningful degree.

That’s sort of what Rickair is implying in the first line of his response, which of course doesn’t mean they HAVE to be that. Education is seldom a BAD idea, meaningful education anyway. But I doubt that any airline will not hire you because you don’t have a master’s degree. Not these days. And that’s coming from someone who has one.