Originally Posted by
snippercr
Unfortunately, I have to (respectfully) throw the BS flag on that one. I know a person who just got hired at an airline with a fraction of what people are getting hired now because of some strong internal connections. For MOST people there are no shortcuts, but for some there are.
This has always been the case, if dad or uncle is a management pilot or a well-known senior CA at a major your airline career prospects are vastly different from the everyone else. All you need to do is meet the mins, and not get any dui's (well maybe one would be OK).
Same at the regionals, except you that it will only save you a few months or maybe compared to someone who had to get to the competitive mins. Of course sometimes competitive times are COM AMEL w/ 250 hours...