Originally Posted by piloto2

Why does XJT use flight attendants as pilot recruiters instead of using pilots? Is it less expensive that way? How in the world is a FA going to be able to answer any of the technical and QOL inquiries that a potential hire would have? A “quality” candidate is going to be very put off by this. On a related note, who actually conducts the technical portion of the interview, or have those been dropped from the recruiting process? If so, there must be a correlation between that and the higher number of failures. As far as the new one week course goes, maybe they can teach some English as a second language along with the other topics. It’s starting to sound a lot more like Mesa on the radio these days.