Hello All! Thanks in advance for your advice.

It took me 7 years to finally graduate with a BS from Embry Riddle (online) and my GPA is an awful 2.60. I went to three other schools prior to that, failed multiple courses, and wandered from major to major while doing so. I am the poster child for why you should wait to go to college until you grow up and know what you want to do.

With that being said, I joined the Army 3/4 of the way through my college "career" and went to flight school and the fixed wing course with them. I am now a regional airline captain coming up on 1000 PIC in FW ME aircraft and otherwise have a stellar career.

I have no accidents/incidents/investigations/training failures, my last speeding ticket was 15+ years ago, and I am not short on folks who can recommend me personally at all the various airlines.

I know that certain airlines REALLY love their formal education ** DAL** and others don't care all that much.

My question is this: which airlines would be most likely to overlook (or don't care about) my awful GPA?

Thanks again!

 

Don’t volunteer information that they don’t ask for.
I’ve never been asked written test scores either.

 

ALL airlines ask for GPA and transcripts.

 

ALL airlines don’t even require college.

ALL is always a hard issue to deal with. For most people with less than stellar college grades it is probably best to just let them know you have a degree. They are more than likely going to want to see transcripts at the interview but that’s OK, by then you’ll actually HAVE the interview and a chance to admit that, yes, you were mainly chasing after members of the opposite (or in some cases same) sex in college and didn’t buckle down and apply yourself until after graduationE, but now you HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT, Praise the Lord, Halleluah.

Everybody likes a reformed wastrel. It’s like the parable of the lost lamb. They are more valued than the rest of the flock that never strayed.

 

Don't put the GPA on the resume. The applications will ask for it, so that's where you put it.

The mil wings will go a long way towards mitigating the GPA. Apply to all majors you're willing to work for.

Regionals won't care if you even have a degree, much less the GPA.

 

Hell.......if they are asking about ones GPA, why shouldn't they also ask how many sexual partners you've ever had? Wouldn't a high number indicate a propensity for risky behavior? How about a low number indicating one is not a sociable person?

Yes, I'm being factious, but there is a serious undertone to what I'm saying as well.

While the majors can absolutely be picky now with regards to GPA, I just don't see how that will continue to be the case 5-10 yrs down the road.

There are going to be more retirements in the next 10 yrs at all the majors than there are regional pilots now. They might.........just MIGHT..........even drop the de facto degree requirement by the middle of the next decade, let alone care and ask about ones GPA.

Its long past time that the tide turns in pilots favor at the majors, as it has at the regionals already.

 

I think you meant facetious......

 

Or maybe fractious.

 

Maybe they’ve found a correlation between GPA and failure rates.

 

It's not long past time, the top majors still have plenty of apps on file with 8K TT (or mil equivalent), TPIC, degree, leadership, etc. So they can still be picky about GPA, volunteer work, etc.

It may get to the point where they can't require a degree, but they will not go there before they have to. Also... there are not actually that many pilots who are otherwise qualified for top majors, who do not have a degree. A few but mostly older.