Originally Posted by
neverposts
I wasn't talking about acmi. There is a 22 year old thats the youngest 777 FO at southern. I'm talking about getting on with the big 3. How many pilots go from private pilot to american or united or delta in less than ten years? 14 years in the military ten years to flow through roughly and probably more than ten years to climb the ladder on the civilian side.
Not many, they youngest guy in my regional class (22) got hired at Delta after about 2.5-3 years. Assuming he started his private at 18, that’s 7 years. I’m sure some people do it faster.