Originally Posted by
tomgoodman
300 hours TT may have been the minimum to apply, but I'd be surprised if anyone actually got a job with the majors during that era unless they had several times that amount or unless there were "special circumstances". The market was flooded with ex-military guys from the post-Vietnam drawdown, and my 1979 DAL class averaged over 1500 hours turbine time. In the early/mid 1960s, yes, they were taking guys with only a few hundred hours.
I wish I still had the paperwork and the ad from the paper I believe when I applied. Uh, yes it was 1977, they were looking at a minimum of 300 TT, of course they also wanted the Comm, Instrument, Multi in the bag already. I ain't that old (56) that I don't remember when I applied along with 30,000 other applicants.