To be frank, the interview conducted for Aviate candidates is comparable to normal regional interview. The difficulty level to receive a phone call for the Aviate program if you meet a certain uncontrollable benchmark is comparable to a normal regional interview.

You pass that Aviate Santa Clause interview, you hold CJO at United airlines.

The standards are set lower, no debate. Now is it intentional? No it’s not, but when you’re interviewing a candidate who just stared swinging the bat, you can’t throw them a professional 97 mph fastball and expect anyone to receive a CJO. Yet United still holds those type of standards for guys and gals already on the line at said regionals/ULCC’s/135. It’s a confusing hiring metric at best IMHO.

And because I know you love to debate specifics, I’ll giver you a specific example.

I still have friends/connections through the University of North Dakota where I attended school and flight instructed. So let me inform you of a incident that was brought up recently in a group chat.

A former instructor at the university fired (not going into the specifics, but it’s “certificates should/could have been surrendered”, bad). Before they received an interview with Aviate they got a TBNT from both SkyWest and Envoy, after the subject of termination was brought up at their recent instruction time at UND.

Turns out they received a CJO with their Aviate interview, and they proceeded to interview with GoJet, currently on the line flying for GoJet.