Originally Posted by
Throwitaway
I'll bite...
I'd guess they are just looking for the most highly qualified candidates and not hiring based on preference of gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation preferences.
AA just begged Lori Cline, a female, to head up pilot hiring. They practically begged her. They had to give her a very lucrative pay and travel package to make her bite. Message sent. The message is we want more women running the hiring, and hired. A 3 yr tenured African American pilot is promoted to chief pilot status. Message sent.
Piedmont Airlines just choked down the gauge of the pipeline of hiring by requiring an ATP/CTP. This absolutely ratchets down the window to lots of women and minorities.
I say its it's less than two weeks before someone at Piedmont gets a call about this, hauled down to DFW for a carpet dance, fired about this, or demoted because of this. ,
Hopefully it's someone the pilots don't like much. Because Lori just got her first chance to send a message.