Originally Posted by
MaxThrust1
I agree with the above, go get the ATP. No legacy will touch you without one. I know you said you didn’t want to go to a regional, but honestly I would save the money and have have a regional without a training contract pay for it for you. While they are hiring a few around that TT, it certainly is not the norm. Plus a little bit of 121 experience on your part will only help you be successful at United.
Delta will hire mil pilots with only the written ATP, and several of my friends took advantage of that policy and it's why they're at Delta and not United.
That being said, not having the full ATP only limits you. Yeah paying 10k on a plastic card to re-prove you are capable of flying a complex aircraft around the world is dumb, but you need it to get hired. Going to the regionals may save you 10 grand, but a 6 month stint at the regionals will also cost you 1,000 seniority numbers and 6 months of legacy airline pay, which is *just a bit* more than $10,000. From that limited information you seem competitive if you check the other boxes and depending on what skeletons you have in your closet. Also if you go to the regionals you likely won't be quickly hired by whatever legacy is partnered with that regional, and I've heard a lot of regionals aren't hiring FO's because they don't have enough captains on hand to justify bringing more FO's on board.