MAJOR news about 1500 hour rule change
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Colloquially referred to as the "10,000 hour kiss of death"
Employers wonder why you never moved on. Usually it isn't a good thing since the regionals are generally looked at as a stepping stone. If you stay for a really long time, people start to think theres some reason no one has picked you up
Employers wonder why you never moved on. Usually it isn't a good thing since the regionals are generally looked at as a stepping stone. If you stay for a really long time, people start to think theres some reason no one has picked you up
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Until recently, there were a lot of very good pilots with over 10,000 hours. It is dwindling rapidly. Until three or four years ago, Envoy pilots that were flowing to AA were 25 years at the regionals, through no fault of their own. They had well over 10,000. Currently, 12 years are flowing. This will continue to drop.
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What were their resume's like? Did they bother tailoring them to each airline? Any volunteer experience? It's not just a function of hours to get hired by the majors. I knew a guy with 3,000TT, 2,000 121 time get hired by Delta within two years of getting his ATP but the guy was a rockstar. Tons of extra-curriculars and a great personality.
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What were their resume's like? Did they bother tailoring them to each airline? Any volunteer experience? It's not just a function of hours to get hired by the majors. I knew a guy with 3,000TT, 2,000 121 time get hired by Delta within two years of getting his ATP but the guy was a rockstar. Tons of extra-curriculars and a great personality.
The biggest problems with this industry is Human Resources and there is no shortage of pilots.
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Yep, it's easy to be a "rock star" with a great personality and the time for all those goodie extra-curricular activities and voluteer work that HR seems to favor. Its especially easy when your 23-28 years old and have no real responsibility, like 3 kids, a mortgage, kids college education and retirement to fund, family medical issues, loss of a job, and all the other adult things in life that junior hasn't had to negotiate. All of this done while flying, and keeping a clean record, being a responsible adult, with tons more experience.
The biggest problems with this industry is Human Resources and there is no shortage of pilots.
The biggest problems with this industry is Human Resources and there is no shortage of pilots.
There's a lot of bitterness in this industry and people who think they're owed a job at mainline. Why would the majors hire someone like that over a *competent* overachiever with less experience but a better attitude?
Just because you're busy doesn't mean you can't volunteer once a month. There are plenty of blue collar people with less money and more problems than your average airline pilot that do it. It's not all sunshine and rainbows in aviation but there are people out there with way worse paying, soul crushing jobs that manage to give back to others.
Even if you're a misanthrope, just look at it as an investment into your career and future earnings.
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What were their resume's like? Did they bother tailoring them to each airline? Any volunteer experience? It's not just a function of hours to get hired by the majors. I knew a guy with 3,000TT, 2,000 121 time get hired by Delta within two years of getting his ATP but the guy was a rockstar. Tons of extra-curriculars and a great personality.
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One is a CA with 10,000 hours and the other is a Fresh ATP as of 2 years ago?????? What is similar between the two other then one was president of his fraternity within the last 3 years?
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They've both proven they have the knowledge and skill to get through a captain upgrade and fly the line without screwing up. Clearly Delta doesn't see 6,000 extra hours of flying ORD-MKE to be more valuable than personality. They aren't going to waste money training people who won't make it or get violated, and since they have the stats on who makes it through I'm going to trust their judgement more than getting emotional about things not being "fair".
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