Originally Posted by
Jetfly03
Does United accept someone 'quicker' when it goes through the Aviate programme or is it the same as hiring a First Officer?
For example, going firstly through GoJet and getting into the Aviate programme or directly go as First Officer?
As far as I know, there have been NO Aviate poolies that have been offered a class date yet. Someone posted a week or so ago that there had, but I know a few that are very close to the top of the FIFO list who haven't heard anything. Even then, they still have to go through the "review board" and pass that before they are considered worthy to be let into the "real" pool of OTS hires.
If your position as Boeing narrow body FO is correct, stay where you are and just apply off the street. If you go to a UA regional, you have to put in a minimum of 2 years and 2000 hours before you can transition.
It remains to be seen how fast they will draw from the Aviate pool, but at the moment, it looks like it will be at a snail's pace and there probably is about 6-700 in that pool right now. Aviate is only good for brand new, fresh out of flight school, low time pilots.