Originally Posted by Liberty

SWA says they look for three things…

Leadership
Education
Flight Experience (don’t confuse w/ flight hours)

The military offers a tremendous amount of opportunity for these three buckets. In fact, you’ll get lots of these three buckets full whether you want to or not. I hesitate to speak many words about the civilian experience because I didn’t live it but I would suppose filling these buckets would require a guy to actively pursue them… and some don’t.

Those three buckets get you the interview. From the interview, the type of person that you are, or better the type of person they perceive that you are, gets you the job. I’m sure good guys slip through the cracks for a multitude of reasons. However, I still have confidence that our company has been pretty good at this. Of course, I’m an FO and I’m not experiencing flying with the newer guys. All I know is that my class was full of good dudes and the captains that I fly with are mostly fantastic.

All of this ebbs and flows based on supply/demand. We’ve seen the extremes! However, I think this is still the foundational principle always in play.

None of this applies to M/A guys. You get what you get with them. There’s no way they would get hired by a Texas airline driving Miatas. We all know that! 😂