Originally Posted by
sflpilot
The worst part is they have thousands of guys and women who are grossly overqualified with thousands of hours of 121 PIC. They think the solution to the future is to head to the flight schools and hire the CFI's. And no as Delta says they won't be bad FO's because of their experience. I'm still not sure who came up with that idea.
They are looking years down the road. They want to encourage people to enter aviation to provide a long term supply of pilots.
Having a ton of quality flight time isn’t the biggest factor. Lots of people have thick logbooks. They are going after individual personalities who also meet the standard. There have been a couple of exceptions, but the vast majority of people who were hired have been excellent pilots and employees.