Southwest Airlines reducing minimum requirements for pilots

[FPK1]

Southwest Airlines is reportedly reducing the number of hours prospective pilots must have spent flying jets and other turbine-powered aircraft to less than 1,000...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/southwest-airlines-reducing-minimum-requirements-pilots

 

[TCABM]

Nothing new. UA mainline hired a class with <900 TPIC last year.

 

[hindsight2020]

and I worked with a dude that got hired by Continental without an ATP in hand. Nothing new under the sun. Life ain't fair and it's all timing and luck anyways.

 

[jordane93]

Nothing new. UA mainline hired a class with <900 TPIC last year.

You don’t even need TPIC to get hired anymore. Or a degree. For now

 

[Zeldman]

I gots my diploma from MIT* and drive a diesel pickup..... do I qualify.??



*Murrays Institute of Tools....