OK, like I started out this thread, I'm just asking questions. I guess it's just normal that if you disagree with somebody here you just start lobbing credibility grenades over the fence. Easy to do on an anonymous forum. But I digress...
I am not trying to say that a guy that has money in the bank is any more or less qualified than anybody else in the pool. For that matter why don't we stop hiring from the military and the regionals all together and just hire people from the majors who want a job and have time in the airplane. And let's just make them Captains as well. I mean, who would make a better Captain than somebody from Delta who has spent 2o years flying Int'l. I mean if we want to put the "most qualified guys" in the cockpit. And I don't think Enders gives a sh1t about hiring him. My point is that the hiring process is getting us a very high quality product and it's not the new guys crashing airplanes. Look at the numbers. The latest tail strike was done by the same kind of pilot you want FedEx to hire. Very seasoned, very experienced, lots of hours in the MD. Yeah, there are a lot of guys out there who have a world of experience. There are also a lot of guys out there on the street that have a great deal of experience. Evidently the current regime has chosen the path we are taking. When he retires here in the near future, make sure your name is on the list of folks applying for the job, then you can make the decisions.