And where are the stats that show how many guys applied? Or how many years they had in? Training failures? Background issues? Years of education? GPA? Interest in mainline to begin with? Was mainline hiring? Etc....

The point being these are just dry numbers. You can’t justify anything off of these stats without knowing any of the above mentioned. Republic does not have a flow.... Your the flow!

The guys with military experience have a “full” resume. They can check the “volunteer” box and possibly “leadership” box depending on what they did. Civilians need to put effort into that in order to be competitive and this doesn’t necessarily mean “leadership” positions at the airline or union.

Unfortunately, the regionals set a bad example during their hiring sprees. There is no “pilot shortage” at mainline, so it involves selling yourself to get a job and a lot of younger guys with no experience outside of being a CFI or just the aviation industry have a hard time demonstrating this and lack the effort because they were “handed” their first 121 job. The regional bought them... What I’m seeing nowadays is guys who are just flight hour motivated, which is really the last thing that makes you competitive.

If you’re going to use dry statistics like these to base your decisions off of without using basic logic then you’re making a mistake.