Originally Posted by Cicada

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. ,