Originally Posted by
11atsomto
AQP and Non AQP................ Ugh you bet yo Ascot is different. Some regionals are AQP some are not. I believe all legacies are. Spirit is DEFINITELY NOT AQP. Furthermore the Spirit A320 type is MUCH MUCH harder than United's. But the fact that you passed a non AQP training really doesn't score you any points, in fact it seems that greater points are given if you have come from an airline with an AQP program......not necesarily for training reasons just because.
Regional TPIC is very very admirable. You are dealing with substandard dispatch, longer duty days, cash strapped MX departments that have planes that likely have more MEL's, mentoring First officers who are likely flying their first jet, and often flying late at night not on STARS or into non towered airports very late. Historically up until this year about......I think your average mainline recruiter says to themselves. "Well thats great and all managing all those threats but we don't really do that here...so that skillset isn't really needed"......where as a Spirit or Frontier FO does do all the stuff that we do here. Im not saying I agree with it, but I think thats their logic. Anyway I'm from the days where even the LCC's required you to have TPIC.
But back to my original question, the reason why I asked it is: is it the 737/A320 type that scores you points or is it what the paint job says?
Does a recruiter score a Regional Guy with TPIC over someone with no TPIC already at a legacy...........if Not that effectively this means it's what's on the paint job that matters......and that ain't right.
Recruiters don’t make hiring decisions in a vacuum, and neither do hiring managers. Put two applications on the table and one may have a higher overall score than the other, but as long as both meet whatever the minimum score is, a company has the ability to prioritize taking the applicant that fits the company’s agenda (say one is an FO from a major whose management publicly declared they are “at war” with the said airline and another applicant is from a Wholly Owned regional of a major that the company isn’t going head to head with at the moment).
Unfortunately the reality is that RJ pilots are a dime a dozen so one that doesn’t do anything more than fly the line at their regional isn’t going to stand out compared to applicants with different backgrounds, or applicants that go the distance to get face time in front of a legacy hiring department. A hiring department is going to do their best to hire who they deem right for their company at that point in time even if the general applicant and line flying population thinks “that ain’t right”.