I am just curious on how much driving records play a roll into getting hired at a regional. I am currently flight instructing and getting to the point where I am going to start applying at regional’s. I have been reading through some of the threads and am getting nervous about how much I see people mentioning driving records when talking about getting hired. I am currently 25 and I just pulled my 5 year driving record, and I have 2 speeding tickets on it both over 3 years old, but if you go back ten years I was still in high school and there are quite a few. I don’t know to be exactly how many, but I got a lot of speeding tickets back then. All my violations have been speeding, and one tailgating ticket like 6 years ago. Will airlines look to see that my trend has changed only having 2 tickets in the last 5 years or will those speeding tickets from back when I was in high school stop me from getting a job.

 

2 tickets in 5 years. You're screwed. If I were you, I wouldn't even apply, pick a new career.

 

When I was 18-19 I had about 7-8 tickets. I was hired by a regional in 2006... The last violation I had was 2001, and I've been clean since. I was asked during the inveterview by the 2 Capt. "Have you ever had a moving violoation?" my respose was "How far do you want to go back?" I think it was the fact that I've been clean eversince I got to college, and showed improvements.

It depends on who you are interview with and how HR feels about moving violation.

 

You should be fine since you were very young, there was no reckless/DUI, and you have improved. But don't get any more tickets.