Originally Posted by chihuahua

If the legacy airlines are worried about getting applicants, why do they still have cog tests, hogan tests, personality assessments, etc, etc before you even get to do the interview? Hell even Spirit has people do a personality assessment before they interview, and AA has a big banner on their careers page that all new hires need to show proof of covid vaccination because of "a federal vaccine mandate for American Airlines", even though no such thing exists anymore, and never even went into effect, yet they're still using it to weed applicants out. The people applying for legacy airlines, or even the LCCs have mostly been flying transport category aircraft at the regionals where any jit with 1500 hours in a 100 series Cessna can apply and is given an interview, and most likely a CJO assuming they aren't a complete dumbass. Hell, there's guys out there that bought a 152 and flew around for 1500 hours, didn't even bother with the CFI, then applied to regionals and got hired to fly *insert your favorite legacy*'s passengers on flights branded and sold as being of the mainline carrier in a transport category aircraft that has the same performance as any equipment the mainline airline operates. Most passengers have no idea of what Endeavor or Skywest or PSA or Envoy or Air Wisconsin even are when they fly, they see that flight as being part of the company they booked their travel on. If they really wanted to hire pilots the regional airlines would just be absorbed into the mainline partners and people would be allowed to bid to whatever their seniority could hold. The legacy airlines still want to control who gets to work in the big leagues more than they want to control who works for the B-team, and right now that's still more important than filling mainline flight decks. Breeze will find applicants from those that decide they rather work at Breeze than somewhere else.