Originally Posted by
Pilotchute
The USA is the only country on earth that requires a University Degree to work for a legacy airline.
Sort of makes all the above arguments irrelevant. Its a Resume filter. Thats all.
They ask for it because they can. At some point in time, the number of well qualified applicants far exceeds the number of slots. There is simply no shortage of well qualified pilots willing to work at legacy carriers.