Originally Posted by
chazbird
"Other regionals, like AWAC, avoid high time guys like the plague". Interesting. Not surprising, but interesting. That says a lot about the regional gulag system. I've been on the street two years and am "high time" and haven't bothered to look into a regional because of, big surprise, pay - which is probably the reason they would avoid my plagued self. It would be difficult to prove, but it would also be a interesting lawsuit. High time correlates to older worker and discriminating for age is a very nasty pay-out upon on a judge's or jury ruling. The regionals need a lot of corrections. Welcome to the gulag.
I doubt that would hold up in court. Being overqualified is a perfectly legal excuse for not hiring someone. It is reasonable to expect that they will leave before providing a return on the training investment. Overqualified workers do tend to be older, but that's an obvious correlation which has nothing to do with discrimination.
I would guess that most regionals, when confronted with a pack of 1000 hour CFI's, probably tend to hire MORE of the older guys since they have life experience and judgement even though their flight experience is the same as the kids. Nobody has ever suggested that career-changers have trouble getting jobs at regionals (in recent memory).