Originally Posted by
Hedley
And have a 20+ year military pilots come onboard below them??? Those pilots served decades enduring deployments to places people don’t want to go, while the regional pilot flew a rj and stayed in comfortable hotels for a fraction of the time. I don’t see that happening. Aviate is just a program to attract pilots to the regional network with the opportunity to significantly improve your odds of getting hired by United if accepted into the program, but you don’t work for United until your W2 says so. When your W2 says United, you get a seniority number.
For the record, many of the Aviate people at the top of the list waiting for a class date have been flying for over 25+ years as well. They have more than paid their dues. I think people who aren’t in Aviate think the majority in the program are 24 year olds. They aren’t. Some of these guys are close enough to mandatory retirement that the extra time of waiting due to Covid and whatever else is extending the wait, is putting them in the position where it may not even make sense to change airlines now. I just want to clear that up.
Regardless, to all pilots who have served, Thank you for your service!