Originally Posted by
AZFlyer
Source? I said it was anecdotal. I know these pilots personally so it is all first hand information.
I know quite a few WO non-flow pilots from the 3 WO airlines, and to a person every single one of them was either a LCA at their respective WO airline with solid credentials or they were just a regular line pilot but they had AA mom/dad pulling strings for them because not a single one of them had a resume that you would describe as competitive against your typical civilian off the street hire (some blatantly so, IMO). And further about that second group, some of them absolutely were hired in spite of problems that would get unconnected applicants a rejection. I'm not publicly knocking or criticizing it, but there is a fascinating pattern. I'm sure there has to be outliers to this pattern, but I just haven't come across one yet. Take it for what you want.
This is true as I’ve also seen it happen exactly as you explained. And I am still bitter about what AA did to me and everyone at all 3 wholly owns that worked our way up after furlough into the training dept, had all the boxes checked, but couldn’t get a interview. (why didn’t you go somewhere else is the argument. Because I refuse to commute for this job) However, a guy shows for less than a year, w min turboprop time, never upgrades, but wife gets a job offer in mainline recruiting dept. She makes the deal to get husband a interview immediately and boom! hired.
Also a friend who did the DGI at Delta told me 4 candidates in his interview were from PSA... All hired.
Im also not knocking anyone personally. You got the cards.. Play em, we all would. When you get passed over use it as motivation to not let the next one do it to you. Airlines love confidence. Wish older crew news pre merger/pre flow. SSP days. were still available. One Dash driver asked parker in front of everyone why no one is getting a interview from pdt. Walked up handed him his resume and was hired.