Originally Posted by
Excargodog
And that’s REALLY why the legacies will fall all over themselves to take some 45 year old retired O-5 or O-6 with less than 2500 hours who flew an A-10 until he made major and then flew a desk for the past 10 years over someone with 2500 hours of 121 time from one of their own regional feeders.
I totally agree with you. I find it so ironic that we get our "thousands of hours of experience" striving to differentiate ourself with training dept, flight ops dept, union work, volunteer.. Flying their pax so we can one day be good enough to.... Wait for it.... Fly their pax!
Case in point, I was at WAI last spring and said hi to American, the gal looked at my resume with 2 masters degrees and 3.5+ gpas during all college/grad coursework, training dept, union & community volunteer work, 1400 121 tpic (a good portion of which was gained flying AA ticketed pax) and told me to look around at everyone else at the table area and find a way to differentiate myself lol.. Handed me my resume back and that was that. Being the snowflake that I am, I was demoralized and mildly humiliated.
What you're saying makes total sense