Originally Posted by
pinseeker
You did say we lose out on good candidates because we require PIC time. Who cares, unless we are hiring bad candidates. I'm sure there are lots of pilots that didn't get hired by FedEx who are excellent pilots flying at the legacies or UPS because they didn't make it past the interview or test. Let's just get rid of all of that and if you meet the requirements to be a type rated FO and hold a passport, you get hired. First come first serve.
Ahh ok, so you read my post and completely misinterpreted it. Got it.
Good point! We did just change our interview process to make it
easier for candidates! So I think you're on to something now!!! As I said before, if we had to, we would hire wet ATP certs to move freight. It's market demand, not what makes you feel comfortable in the left seat.
All I am saying is lets get with the rest of the industry and change the PIC time to preferred. It will simply allow us to snag those who want to come here before they go to a legacy and get stuck there for their entire career when they would've been great employees here. Instead, we have folks who are at SWA with no PIC who want to come here. He/she flies the 737, prob has other type ratings, doesn't meet the PIC requirements. I'd feel more than comfortable flying around the world with that individual.
THIS is where I would say the PIC requirement can be waived because we are missing out on a good candidate for our airline.