Originally Posted by
Maingear
Man, you guys love talking about scraping the bottom of the barrel. Well let me tell you my short story about riding the jumpseat on Southwest.
I was a 747 FO with 5K+ 121 (1800+ 121 PIC, LCA, ERAU, no DUI and in the JS at Southwest and an app on file(for every window the past 5 years). As we pulled into the gate the FO said to the CA, "Hey have you seen who we're hiring? We're really desperate and really scraping the bottom fo the barrel." I didn't say anything, but I regretted not saying anything. It kinda pretty not great. Not saying we are hiring the cream of the crop at United, but be aware of who reads this forum and have some humility.
kind of agree. The difference between someone with 2k hrs and 10k is almost negligible. They’re guys with 10k hrs and honestly terrible pilots in either seat. There are guys with less than 2k who are really sharp. Hrs is a really poor want to judge someone’s ability and chance of success. Hiring lower time pilots is far from scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Half the people on the upper end of any company seniority list are made up of guys who got hired at 250 hrs. So yeah some humility would be nice and remember everyone was new at one point