Originally Posted by
Milksheikh
You're right a college degree doesn't have anything to do with how good a pilot you are and I know some great pilots without one. My point is that you aren't going to delta united FedEx ups without one. That's why the AA regionals get more people without one because they know they can flow.
Correct. They are tapping an underutilized pool, and the fringe benefit is that it gives them a relatively captive audience.
The risk they are taking is that a young person may have a clean record simply because he hasn't had enough time to mess up yet. That guy is still going to flow unless he manages to get fired first, they way I understand it.
Also they are passing on whatever cultural intangible they get from an educated labor pool. Maybe they assume they'll still have a critical mass from mil and OTS.