I totally agree with you, it's just frustrating to see pilot hiring in the hands of a bunch of HR chicks.. I can still remember talking to old timers who flew at the likes of Eastern, Pan AM, TWA, etc back in the day when the entire hiring process was in the hands of the pilots... more over those airlines back in the day were themselves run by pilots or at least airplane/airline enthusiasts.. men like Juan Trippe, Howard Hughes, Bob Six, et al... then came the bankers and bean-counters and we're now all just another "Employee number" and on par with the ramper or gate agent ..

Change isn't always a good thing.. when will people wake up to this fact?

sad.