Direct Entry at US majors

@B737FLY as I have already said. You don't meet the minimum requirements to be a DEC even at a regional at the moment so you need to wrap your head around the fact that if you want to fly in the US you are going to have to be a lowly FO again until you get 1,000 hours here in the right seat. End of story. BTW your money requirement isn't that hard to do at a major as an FO. You're not rollin in the dough quite as good as you think you are. Especially as a 737 Captain.
 
B737FLY said:
As to the lol at 4k hours, I’ve seen guys from my airline go direct entry on 787 at Etihad at around 4k hours, so to me it doesn’t seem like such a far fetched idea, hence my asking about it. I just don’t want to move to Asia or the Middle East and am starting to see if I can come home, in comfortable conditions.
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Welcome to America where there hasn’t been a fatal airline accident in nearly a decade. There’s a reason for that...
 
ClarkGriswold said:
@B737FLY as I have already said. You don't meet the minimum requirements to be a DEC even at a regional at the moment so you need to wrap your head around the fact that if you want to fly in the US you are going to have to be a lowly FO again until you get 1,000 hours here in the right seat. End of story. BTW your money requirement isn't that hard to do at a major as an FO. You're not rollin in the dough quite as good as you think you are. Especially as a 737 Captain.
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Oh I know I am below the industry average. Don’t know why you interpret what I said as me showing off or something. Not the case at all.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Agreed. Like the mentality that someone with only 4,000 hours deserves a direct entry left seat at Delta or United.
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Never said I deserve it. But I do feel I deserve a chance to compete for it. Seniority does not necessarily equal skill.
 
Actually, he did say that he’d be happy to sit right seat at a major/legacy. There is a staggering amount of miscommunication going on in this thread!
 
Derg said:
Direct entry captain at a major? About zero percent.

If you had prior 121 with a CRJ or Embraer type — maybe for a regional.

My friend who is a recruiter had spoken to a lot of Emirates and Qatar Airways widebody Airbus captains, and the ones that were hired are copilots with zero consideration for their previous captain experience.

If @scooter2525, with part 121 A320 time expected to be hired as a SouthernJets captain off the bat, I'd tell him to take a few aspirin and call me in the morning. :) Not acetaminophen because that's bad when you've been drinking.
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I wouldn't expect but would accept! :):)
 
ClarkGriswold said:
@B737FLY as I have already said. You don't meet the minimum requirements to be a DEC even at a regional at the moment so you need to wrap your head around the fact that if you want to fly in the US you are going to have to be a lowly FO again until you get 1,000 hours here in the right seat. End of story. BTW your money requirement isn't that hard to do at a major as an FO. You're not rollin in the dough quite as good as you think you are. Especially as a 737 Captain.
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Pay is significantly higher in the US, but is in part (and only in part) made up for by the significantly better employment benefits in Europe.
 
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