Plenty of people have moved to majors with failed checkrides. Just don't try to hide it. Own it, learn from it, move on. You'll be fine.

Until your list gets too senior-and you start getting underbid.

Someone put it well:

"Once a regional becomes a decent place to work, too many people stick around. When that happens, you will be too expensive-and you will be shut down."

This is the first law of regional aviation. It applies to all regionals-and it always will.

The American Airline Wholly Owned regionals are your answer. You can have less than 3 checkride failures and be hired on at Piedmont without much turmoil. More than 3 and your package may to be sent up for review for a decision from the chief pilots office.

Well there is light at the end of the tunnel!!! Here I was kicking myself in the butt the past couple years thinking there was no hope. Thanks for the input!


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I'm contemplating the same thing. 50/50 on making it a career and would move to the majors if the opportunity was available. I have an ATP and a lucrative business that I'd be walking away from or cutting way back to help make ends meet. 49 years old and don't have a 4 year degree, Do have a 2 year AS in aviation. I'm not sure if the degree is as critical as it used to be in today's environment.

Any thoughts?

If both checkrides were in the context of private pilot recreational flying (vice a formal career-training program), the failures will be non-events. The GA part 91 training and evaluation system is pretty haphazard and inconsistent, and everybody knows it.

Essentially no impact on getting hired at a regional. Likely minimal impact on getting hired at a major over the next ten+ years. Might not get called as quickly, but you'll get called eventually.

Try hard not to fail any more, you don't want a trend.

Degree is absolutely not required at the regional level. Go to one of the AA WOs. Once you get hired you just wait your time and flow to AA.

Regional industry as we know it might not exist in ten years. I wouldn't plan on getting too comfortable. But as I said before, I expect there will be major airline jobs for most all experienced professional pilots by then.