Age 60 New Hires

[airdog]

Any age 60 New Hires?

Anyone heard of an age 60 or older pilot being hired by regional?

 

[navigatro]

Anyone heard of an age 60 or older pilot being hired by regional?

Southwest hired 24 of them this month!!!

 

[siucavflight]

Southwest hired 24 of them this month!!!

Do you consider them a regional?

 

[navigatro]

Yes.

All U.S. airlines are regional(s), with the sole exception of Skybus, which will arise from the ashes and dominate the universe.

 

[the turtle]

dunno about sixty, but a couple of years ago I had an FO who was in his middle fifties-retired from somewhere w/ a good pension and decided to have a go at it.

 

[siucavflight]

Your mom goes to college.

 

[Pattern-Master]

Why would they go to a regional, they can just go down to there local McDonalds and join there senior citizen workforce program and make more money dishing out BigMacks an coffee. I see this all the time, and they seem to be very happy and take pride in there jobs.

 

[Max Q]

Why would they go to a regional? They can just go down to their local McDonalds and join their senior citizen workforce program and make more money dishing out Big Macs and coffee. I see this all the time. [removed "and"] They seem to be very happy and take pride in their jobs. [revised run-on sentence]

Or a Wal-Mart greeter...

-Brett

 

[timmay]

Or a Wal-Mart greeter...

-Brett

The greeters got the shaft about a year ago. Cutbacks ya know.

 

[v1valarob]

Anyone heard of an age 60 or older pilot being hired by regional?

AWAC recently hired a 60 year old. His previous experience was in a Beech 1900 and couldnt handle the automation of the CRJ. He dropped out during sim.

-Rob