Originally Posted by
hummingbear
Not sure exactly how they’re defining “people of color”, but 40% of our country’s population is non-white. Around 50% are women. It shouldn’t be too hard to fill half a class with other than white dudes without sacrificing standards.
Not sure what decade you're living in.
Prior to covid, regional airlines couldn't hardly find pilots of any kind, at all. The ones they did find had a history of training failures and lead to deviations, incidents, accidents; Commutair, Envoy, Atlas - crashing a wide body. Imagine if that were a United 767 full of hundreds of innocent people.
Holding the standard during huge turn over is tough enough. Accomplishing some nazi-style genetic social engineering program on top of that is just not in the cards, regardless of how good it sounds on paper.
If you truly value safety over everything else, you'll take the most qualified candidates no matter what they look like or have between their legs.