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Southwest Airlines reducing minimum requirements for pilots

Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:31 pm
Posted by ReadyPlayer1
Clown World
Member since Oct 2020
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Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:31 pm
fox business
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While the airline had required applicants to have spent at least 1,000 hours flying such aircraft, The Wall Street Journal said Saturday that it will now consider candidates with less of that type of experience. 

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listed on Southwest's website show 500 hours in a fixed-wing turbine aircraft are "preferred."

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Southwest is looking to expand its ranks by 1,700 pilots this year. 

Make sure your life insurance is up to date before flying SW
Posted by MikeBRLA
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2005
16474 posts
Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:33 pm to
OT Ballers don’t fly Southwest anyway…so we good.
Posted by 0x15E
Outer Space
Member since Sep 2020
12740 posts
Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:33 pm to
Need to limit the number of hours on their online scheduling system before upgrading their software
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:39 pm to
To be fair this is to be copilot. To be captain would take a while
Posted by Privateer 2007
Member since Jan 2020
6199 posts
Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:45 pm to
Is this to boost minority #'s?
Posted by Teauxler
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2010
3297 posts
Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:54 pm to
Worked out well for the Memphis PD
Posted by Lsudx256
DFW
Member since Mar 2016
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Posted on 2/4/23 at 7:25 pm to
That’s still more hours needed than just 10 years ago. After Sully landed that plane in the Hudson he got famous and ran his mouth about pilots needing 1000 hours. Everyone fell in line and did that. It was just over 300 if I can remember correctly.
Posted by MugMan
Member since Dec 2022
442 posts
Posted on 2/4/23 at 7:26 pm to
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To be fair this is to be copilot. To be captain would take a while


Having watched analysis of lots of major crashes around the world, that's little comfort. The majority of them were the left seater letting the right seater fly or land when something went wrong.
Posted by ReadyPlayer1
Clown World
Member since Oct 2020
1062 posts
Posted on 2/4/23 at 7:35 pm to
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That’s still more hours needed than just 10 years ago. After Sully landed that plane in the Hudson he got famous and ran his mouth about pilots needing 1000 hours. Everyone fell in line and did that. It was just over 300 if I can remember correctly.

shite I drive boats and we had a few steps. During the period where it is like a learner's permit I needed almost 3,000 hours. So when I see 1,000 for a pilot I'm like that isn't shite. Can't even imagine having less then that.
Posted by Nump
Down da Bayou
Member since Sep 2021
128 posts
Posted on 2/4/23 at 7:51 pm to
My first wife was ‘tarded. She’s a pilot now.
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