Originally Posted by
edavis
after ten years of being clean how do the airlines look at your background when it comes down to felonies and/or misdemeanors? and what if you got a charge and never been convicted? (Withheld adjudication) does that mean anything? And does the airline application ask "have you ever been convicted" or "have you ever been convicted in the last tens years"?
How the airlines view it depends entirely on the nature of the crime, your age when it happened, how much time has passed, how you address the issue, and the rest of your record.
Someone who got a felony shoplifting at age 18, has an otherwise clean record, and is now 35 might be able to talk his way around it.
Someone who got an assault with a deadly weapon at age 30, has a few misdemeanors and speeding tickets, and is now 40 is going to be SOL.