No Degree Aviate
 

Did Aviate just solidify a no degree avalanche of pilots? Reading the aviate website, it seem one can go from getting one’s ratings at the academy to 24 months at a regional to UAL. I think this is crazy. Is this correct? Are we now going to have mass of high school edumacted pilots in the flight deck? This should be rethought.

The transition to United requires a degree it’s in the program guidelines.


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I dunno, with the heavily liberal influenced education that kids get in college now, I’d be fine with high school educated kids. Life lessons are way more valuable than anything i learned in college.

A high school educated pilot can fly a 50-76 seat regional jet but is incapable of flying a 77-330 passenger mainline jet? Interesting.

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Everyone knows that your chances of getting hired by a legacy without a degree are slim to none, yet people still refuse to get one and then complain about not getting hired? Interesting.

I don't have any issue with an employer's requirements to obtain employment, however, comments from the peanut gallery about "edumacated" people occupying the cockpit with those who are "educated" deserves to be called out for the absurd comment that it is.

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The college degree preference (just shy of being a requirement), while understandable when it’s a seller’s market, is a bit absurd when they’re desperate enough to fund a training pipeline for zero-hour candidates.

I’ve got a good buddy from the RJ days who has spent the last decade flying heavies internationally for Cathay, but his application is basically DOA at all the majors because he went from high school directly to flight school.

Apparently his knowledge, skills, and experience account for next to nothing while a fresh-faced AVIATE enrollee will get fast tracked to a multi-million dollar career…

This industry is crazy.

Is that the rationale for Aviate? I don’t think the “shortage” is its genesis. The legacies won’t have any problems putting faces to spaces for some time. Now the regionals are another story. Perhaps that is the reason it exists.

To be eligible for mainline, the Aviate site says a Bachelor’s degree is required unless an exception is granted, so it’s still basically the status quo in that regard.

They told us on an informational call when Aviate started they would wave the degree requirement for people with significant leadership experience chief pilot, director of operations etc. So basically just get your degree.