Originally Posted by
laxislife
I'm just going into flight school next month but I just had a few questions about transferring. Say after you finish flight school you work as instructor and get say 1200 TT and you apply to delta and get the job, you work for them for a few years and accumulate say...5-6 thousand hours, and then wanted to work for a different airline after that and the requirements to make captain was 6000 hours and you had it, could you apply directly for captain with that company? Ive heard some people say you would have to start again as a first year F/O. Any help on this would be appreciated thanks alot.
You are also missing the fact that with 1200 total time and maybe 500 multi (most likely in Seminoles) you will not get the job at Delta unless you know the president of the company personally.
To accumulate your... say... 5-6 thousand hours... plan on being at that airline 7-8 years. Could you do it in less... sure. Only if you can live with quality of life ZERO.
Yes, you start over again at ground zero. Rarely, if ever, do major ever hire street captains. It happens with the turboprop jobs most often, and occasionally a small regional jet operator... ah la Gojets... which no self respecting pilot would ever tell you accept a job there. They, and a few others, continue to help the profession in it's race to the bottom.