Originally Posted by
de727ups
"In the mid 1990's new hire commuter airline classes were mostly populated by high time learjet captains and military superstars."
I don't understand why Sky recalls the past so differently than I do. I was there, and I personally helped a Mesa guy and a Horizon guy get hired at UPS in that era. Majors hired lots of regional guys, and regionals hired lots of 135 freight guys, not just "Lear Capts and military superstars" as Sky claims.
I don't know what a "military superstar is either, but I was in the military in the mid 90's and I don't know of a single person that got out of either the training command or the fleet who went to a commuter airline. I was looked down upon because I wantd to fly corporate or gov't/law enforcement. Every pilot I know went to a Legacy, SWA, FeEx, or UPS. One of my squadronmates (and I was east coast at the time) ended up getting hired by Alaska and that was something way out of the ordinary.
USMCFLYR