Originally Posted by
Winston
The college degree preference (just shy of being a requirement), while understandable when it’s a seller’s market, is a bit absurd when they’re desperate enough to fund a training pipeline for zero-hour candidates.
I’ve got a good buddy from the RJ days who has spent the last decade flying heavies internationally for Cathay, but his application is basically DOA at all the majors because he went from high school directly to flight school.
Apparently his knowledge, skills, and experience account for next to nothing while a fresh-faced AVIATE enrollee will get fast tracked to a multi-million dollar career…
This industry is crazy.
What's crazy is that people have known this for decades but still refuse to accept reality and get a degree. They'd rather spend more time whining about it instead of a couple years taking online classes while getting credit for hours flown -- and moving on.