they might not want the ppl ID but they certainly want the hours documentation in your app

Minor point, but it is possible to hold a Private Single Engine, and a ATP multi engine. Mil pilots could be in that situation, but it's still on the same card regardless.

+1 to adding every card you have that is current, not old cards with or without holes in them.

They want to know when you got your PPL. They don't want to see your expired PPL card with a hole in it.

There is no way they want all of someone’s long expired/superseded certificates. It’s not likely that the large majority of airline pilots even have all of that anymore. We would have an extremely hard time filling classes even with younger pilots, let alone older more experienced ones, if everyone had to furnish copies of dozens of hole punched certificates LOL!

I’d actually like to see their faces in the extremely unlikely event someone did scan and include every superseded certificate, medical, written test, etc. I doubt anyone has ever even tried to do that.

Money to charity that there is no way that’s the correct interpretation. Your “mole” either got it wrong (I doubt anyone in the actual process ever thought or thinks this) or something was lost in translation (more likely).

Of course they want your total hours including PPL and everything else. They’ve always wanted that and so has every other airline ever. They want all your logbooks/rip sheets/etc to prove your time totals etc. That’s a far cry from every old certificate etc.

Does anyone have experience re-applying after the post-interview cooldown phase? Particularly on the new app?

Sat in on a Zoom with an airline interview prep company yesterday and it was stated that a checkride failure will make it very challenging to be hired at a legacy carrier. Has hiring really tightened to that extent? I have a private bust from 2006 but flawless record since, three types (CL65, A320,777), Masters, volunteerism, mil retired (non-aviation) but only 3,000 hrs w/35 turbine PIC. Going to WAI in a few weeks but wondering if anyone has ran into the checkride failure wall with just one failure.

Highly doubt a PPL bust 20 years ago while consistently proving you can pass training events since will be a show stopper. If it does even come up just have a solid answer as to what you learned from the failure, how you improved and how you used what you learned on future checkrides.

absolutely incorrect. Part 121 failures, yes. Primary training failures, only if there’s a pattern. Especially the PPL, that one is usually on the CFI rather than the applicant.