If you've been in the business longer than 5 minutes, you know very well it takes more than FLIGHT TIME to get hired. 6,000 hours and a sketchy past does no company any good.

It seems like only yesterday, the regionals were scrambling to get 200 hour wonders in the right seats. :eek:

Hi!

Mesaba needs higher time guys so someone can upgrade soon...lots of younger, lower-time guys who can't.

cliff
YIP

Hey Afterburn,

I have 12,000 hours plus with 8000 in 121 big jets as well and was hired by 2 regional carriers over the past few months. GLA might not want the guys you mention but thats not the norm.....

Well, ATP, not exactly. The vast majority of our new hires in the last year and a half were over 23 and had at least our 600/50 mins. Few under 23 and below mins pilots were hired. That said, we're not having a problem upgrading pilots. Many hired within the last year and half are upgrading. This time last year though, we couldn't get enough upgrades.

Is this sort of like having a Doctorate degree and applying as a cashier at McDonalds?

Its just like that but hey....once i get into McDonald's i can work my way up to the fries and then making the ever popular Big Mac and who's knows maybe i will make it to store manager......Everyone has to start somewhere:D

In times like these you can not let your pride get in your way

Compass has stopped hiring now, but I don't think you could ever have too much time. We hired a couple of 20+ year ATA captains with over 20k hours. Really, don't even try figuring out what Compass HR was thinking. They likely *weren't* thinking - our HR department is by far the most screwed up part of this company.

It's call experience.