What is the minimum age at your airline?

Many years ago there was an AA pilot's daughter at Eagle who was unable to upgrade because she was ineligible for her ATP, as she was not yet 23. (This was many years ago... in the days of upgrading in a year.) Like someone said above, Eagle will hire at 21.
 
23. Second part of your question, coincidentally I was the youngest person on the seniority list the day I started class.
 
21 here. We've had a few guys (not recently obviously) have to wait to upgrade because they couldn't hold an ATP due to their age.
 
BobDDuck said:
21 here. We've had a few guys (not recently obviously) have to wait to upgrade because they couldn't hold an ATP due to their age.
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Story of my life, that's why I left my FO gig when I was starting out, 4 years of static pay in the right seat wasn't a really good option.
 
19 at CJC during my time here...Did his pre-hire sim. eval. One of the best pilots I have ever flown with too!
 
If you're under 21 and are eligable to go to a regional you really have to think about it first, if it's worth it. There's a reason why most 18-21 year olds work at Mcdonalds, and are not flying multi million dollar airliners and hundreds of people a day. You really have to be mature and ask yourself if you're up for it. You'll be in a small minority too, most regional pilots are in their early 20s coming out of college to mid 30s with a wife and kids. There's going to be a social barrier as well especially if you're under 21. You will most likely also miss out on the college life, 18-21 should be a time of exploration, instead you're going to be swinging gear and spending half the time in a hotel room missing that part of life. Finally, you will have to wait to be eligable for an upgrade until you turn 23 and you will always have to deal with the untrusting passengers when they see a kid walk up to the airplane. And that's gets really annyoing even for some in their late 20s!
 
Socal321 said:
If you're under 21 and are eligable to go to a regional you really have to think about it first, if it's worth it. There's a reason why most 18-21 year olds work at Mcdonalds, and are not flying multi million dollar airliners and hundreds of people a day. You really have to be mature and ask yourself if you're up for it. You'll be in a small minority too, most regional pilots are in their early 20s coming out of college to mid 30s with a wife and kids. There's going to be a social barrier as well especially if you're under 21. You will most likely also miss out on the college life, 18-21 should be a time of exploration, instead you're going to be swinging gear and spending half the time in a hotel room missing that part of life. Finally, you will have to wait to be eligable for an upgrade until you turn 23 and you will always have to deal with the untrusting passengers when they see a kid walk up to the airplane. And that's gets really annyoing even for some in their late 20s!
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That was the biggy for me. That and how boring it was, the youth is for doing things like flying the bush, or towing banners, or hauling divers. I think that, by and large, I took myself too seriously in regards to a career at an early age. Now I couldn't really care less. The problem with going to an FO gig at 19 (like I did) is that you're too young to know as much about flying, or even life in general as you think you do. The older I get, the less I know, and my opinions, which were written in granite at 19 are now written in a softer, more karstic mineral, and evolve and faster timescales. I think that I was a piss poor FO. I was less flexible than I ought to have been, and was a cocky bastard. It took me going to Kodiak and scaring the be-jesus out of my self for a summer, then going to a job where some of the guys had - and were totally happy with - 10,000+hrs in 207s to really lose most of that. That's why going to a regional, or any FO really, at a young age is bad, or at least was bad for me. I needed PIC decision making skills to realize that, "I could get myself killed" if I made the wrong choice at the wrong time.

I'm still cocky a bit, and certainly still a bit arrogant in regards to some things, but more than anything, age has taught me how little I actually know as opposed to how much I think I know.
 
Yea, exactly ppragman, especially about the decision making part. You think you've got it figured out, but at the end of the day you're still a 18-21 year old kid.

You really don't gain much going in it early, you gain an early start on your total time, but you're losing out on so much more.
 
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