Originally Posted by ewrbasedpilot

In the not too distant past, UAL's hiring mins were 350 TOTAL TIME with a Comm/Instr ticket....and they are a MAJOR airline? Guess they could only hire the bottom feeders with mins like that, right? Nope, wrong. Just as using total hours doesn't represent a pilots skill level, having a wheel bearing give out doesn't make a maintenance department questionable.