Originally Posted by
BlueSkies
I heard this a lot at my regional. I often heard it from longtime CAs who had applied and were (rightly) discouraged they never got the call
but all their FOs with no PIC did. BUT, when I dug deeper usually the only thing the CAs did was apply, and the FOs did volunteering, job fairs, LoRs, etc.
I think there is some truth to it, and that industry wide many airlines believe past a certain point you are harder to train and harder to mold into what they want. That being said, if you have many other good quals like LCA, etc. it's probably just another +/- in the points system. If you have enough good to out-weigh the 'bad' (if flight time is bad
) then you'll get the call somewhere (even if it's not DAL).
(See bold).
Isn't that still a pretty small minority of folks though? I spent a lot of time at the regional's, and occasionally you would hear about a no PIC time FO getting snapped up, and everyone would come unglued about it (And I guess I kinda understand, I went out and earned my PIC time too, so to see a much less experienced candidate get the chance but you havent yet). But in my experience it was still a relative rarity. Or maybe I just wasn't paying hard enough attention.