Originally Posted by SkyHigh
I apologize if I have my dates wrong however I clearly remember reading an article perhaps in the early 90's about UAL working to establish direct hire cadet schools in response to a perceived future pilot shortage threat.
SkyHigh
Was at UAL from 1965 through 2003. It was the 60's, and I was one of them.
They did not establish direct hire cadet schools - instead you went through all of the employment tests, including the ever-loving Stanine, and full flight physicals.
It is possible that a certified flight school may have been a UAL requirement, but if it was they were not involved with the school itself.
One could get hired literally with "zero-time". You then had one year to get your commercial - didn't even need an instrument ticket, to boot.
The shortage that UAL "saw on the horizon" never materialized.
TWA also had a program planned, but I do not think it came to pass.