Originally Posted by
RStrawberry
Hello, am I competitive?
1050 A320/1 SIC
2750 total time
0 TPIC
3 internal UA LORs, 2 from present employer
not spirit pilot
plenty of leadership experience in current and prior career/volunteer roles.
Feeling dejected and behind schedule seeing United hire so many pilots in short order as I’m 39 and understand the impact to seniority. Anyway, just wondering if I’m competitive? Have a chief pilot meet and greet in a few weeks.
Right now United is sort of being deluged by NK CAs facing downgrades with considerably more TT (and 320 time) than you have.
Attrition Skyrocketing
They also have the advantage (if you want to call it that) of being from a distressed ALPA union. While that supply is not inexhaustible, the worse the situation at NK becomes the more movement you will see in the most highly experienced portion of their pilots. While you clearly are qualified competition may be tough for awhile even though you are doing all the right things. Best thing you can do (at least in my opinion) is fly your butt off and gain more TT as quickly as possible.
As an aside, plenty of people get hired in their forties and have long rewarding careers. Seniority in a multi-type fleet is different than in a fleet that flys only one aircraft type.