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FlyPurdue 05-12-2020 05:49 AM

It sounds like the OP is waiting on a class date at a regional, and using the SWA CJO cancelation as an example that the regionals are next in canceling outstanding CJOs.

ninerdriver 05-12-2020 05:58 AM

FWIW...

https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/southwest/127813-swa-application-process-4.html

Flying Taco 05-12-2020 06:49 AM

LOL I wish I had a class date at Southwest haha. Sorry if I wasn’t specific enough. I’m waiting on a class date at one of the regionals. I’m just saying if SWA is doing this then this looks like all the other majors and regionals are going to fall in there footsteps with us.

LoneStar32 05-12-2020 07:32 AM


Originally Posted by Flying Taco (Post 3054028)
LOL I wish I had a class date at Southwest haha. Sorry if I wasn’t specific enough. I’m waiting on a class date at one of the regionals. I’m just saying if SWA is doing this then this looks like all the other majors and regionals are going to fall in there footsteps with us.

Gotcha, well Regional CJOs may stay if domestic airline travel picks back up quickly. If we are not 80% of pre covid domestic traffic by 1 Oct I would expect for all Regional CJOs to be withdrawn also.

rickair7777 05-12-2020 08:01 AM


Originally Posted by Flying Taco (Post 3054028)
LOL I wish I had a class date at Southwest haha. Sorry if I wasn’t specific enough. I’m waiting on a class date at one of the regionals. I’m just saying if SWA is doing this then this looks like all the other majors and regionals are going to fall in there footsteps with us.


Regionals are far more likely to honor a CJO, simply to save the cost of doing it all over again.

Majors are more concerned about upholding their standards, after some period of time, two things might change.

1) After years, the applicant might not be quite the same person, especially if he goes non-current, gets a DUI, gets fat, gets bitter, etc, etc

2) When hiring resumes, they might have a better pool to choose from, might prefer to throw back what they already caught and try to get their limit of bigger fish.

BobbyLeeSwagger 05-12-2020 08:11 AM


Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 3054081)
1) After years, the applicant might not be quite the same person, especially if he goes non-current, gets a DUI, gets fat, gets bitter, etc, etc

Minus the DUI, I managed to pull off the above in 6 weeks!

R0GER BALL 05-12-2020 08:51 AM

Before the CJOs go, the cadet programs will get *******canned.... There is a cost. If regionals are thinking they’ll pull back hard on hiring they simply won’t need cadets and/or the programs.

It’s what I’m watching to get a bead on the future. Today they still exist.

Mitchell Gant 05-12-2020 11:31 AM

I doubt it will be tough to find applicants after this is all over

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trip 05-12-2020 01:59 PM


Originally Posted by BobbyLeeSwagger (Post 3054087)
Minus the DUI, I managed to pull off the above in 6 weeks!

This^^, in today's environment there's too much risk letting a CJO float for more than a few months.

VIRotate 05-12-2020 06:37 PM


Originally Posted by itsmytime (Post 3053988)
LOL! This is like they guy that was 17, and his parents didn’t want him to be a pilot, to a 10yr captain at a major in one year.

hahaha oh that guy. I think he got a little ban for straight up lying.

Sorry to hear about the WN poolies.


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