I have a distant relative flying for Lufthansa. I haven't gotten much info from him except for "Lufthansa Cargo is hiring 'ready' pilots". Since I'm older than 28, they wouldn't accept me in their academy. They wanted to hire me as a CFI over in Arizona to help train their hand-picked little brats, but they had no bridge program to get me into the airline. I was told it's the pilot union that wont budge on their age hiring criteria. I told them, no deal.

A couple days ago, my mother (she lives in Germany much of the year) sits next to a Lufthansa pilot on the train. He told her I should just come there with a few thousand jet hours and an applicable type rating and I was in. ???

Does anyone have any hiring info on the German Airlines?