Originally Posted by
11atsomto
I personally know of at least 2 people who have pulled off the "skip the regionals" trick play, but it was at Frontier and both individuals had very impressive "outside of flying stuff" resumé
In short go to a regional, or Frontier and learn to play ball. Clearly you've done well with the CFII Flight school administration thing....just show United you can handle the next step.
Speaking for myself I'm always impressed at those who've flown/trained/ worked their way up and usually am not as impressed with those whose tried to cut in line, or have always looked for some loophole to exploit.
This is a self-centered, obsolete, and entitled mentality.
The best advice is: "go as far and as fast as you possibly can to get to your destination airline as quick as possible"
There is nothign wrong with going to the regionals first, there are indeed lots of things to learn there, but if one is able to get to a better place first, then why not?