Originally Posted by
khergan
Top guy I flew with recently was hired at 23 years old in 1990.
The super senior of today got hired under the same exact circumstances as the 20-something's of today, but needed less hours to do so.
Nothing has changed except the hour requirements got bigger. It's the lucky few in the right place at the right time who got the interview. Same as it always will be.
Circa 2016/7 they rolled in a cake in the international briefing rooms in ATL for a A330 CA that was having his 40th year anniversary and was #1 in ATL on the A330 but still had 3 years to go till 65!
He gave a very short speech that basically said started young at a small airline that was bought by Republic that was bought by NWA, that merged with Delta. One interview at 22 lead to a career with 4 uniforms so far.