It def wasn't listed on their website, as in maximum number of hours. It makes no sense from any viewpoint including trainability

I would try hard to find one guy/gal?
We are as pilots separated by three degrees...
If you can't what I did is... I used internal letters from my old job. I used my internal Check Airmen LOR, one of my FOs wrote me a LOR and a letter from DO at the time. I think you can have three still? Show the person going through your file who has never met you the many sides to your personality...my 2cents.
Interview is a lot of fun meeting everyone just relax and be yourself.

I didn't say it was a good idea. The way it was explained to me, Delta wants pilots who are flexible, and who will fly the way Delta tells them to. They believe that very experienced captains are less likely to conform. They probably have some metric that indicates that, since they have an entire team that tracks ALL metrics of the new hires.

In 2013 my class had at least 2 guys with 10k+. Proabably more than that actually but those two I'm 100% positive about. Probably closer to 20k as they were regional guys in their 50's who I'm sure worked a lot.

Thanks for your reply. I had the same question. Appreciate your help.

Didn't say that you did (: I could go on about this for hours...all I will say is I find that very hard to believe. Just imagine this, Pilot A has 15,000 hours flying for UAL, then UAL shuts down, so using this logic DAL wouldn't hire him???

Because UAL checklists respond with "check" while DAL checklists may respond with "set." :

How can a 10,000 hr pilot conform to learning a whole new callout system like that!

I'll take a WAG and say its way more than saying the right word. It's bad habits and bad attitudes. Ofcourse it's not posted on the website "10,000 hour pilots need not apply" but it has been told me by various people in training departments at different airlines.

Some guys I flew with at my previous airline..... Id love to be a fly on the wall if they ever had to be FO's again.

So first they want you to chuck down a lot of money to get your ratings. Then they want that coveted 4 year degree. Then they want that turbine PIC time. And in the end if you went out there and got 6000 plus turbine PIC hours maybe they will look at you more closely too? Wow, sounds like a hell of a deal to me......

All joking aside I'm quite curious as I do exceed some of these numbers and having just turned 41 I actually was one day looking to settle down at a major. So these "people" told you what exactly? And this comes from them.....having a high rate of 6000 turbine pic pilots with bad habits and attitudes?

Don't forget they want you to "volunteer" to build huts in Honduras or Igloos in Alaska. You know, because you have to be worthy, like airline mgmts.