United Military Pilot Program
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The new program was officially launched today: https://careers.united.com/us/en/uni...-pilot-program
Any military manned aircraft pilot with greater than 6 months until availability can apply and receive a CJO. The above website gives decent information, but the FAQ fleshes out some of the finer details.
Any military manned aircraft pilot with greater than 6 months until availability can apply and receive a CJO. The above website gives decent information, but the FAQ fleshes out some of the finer details.
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Interesting side notes: United doesn’t plan on interviewing UMPP applicants till first quarter CY24, and won’t be hiring any UMPP applicants prior to Sept 1, 2024. So if you’re availability is prior to that, maintain the traditional application process. Also it literally says traditional applicants aren’t looked at until 6 months prior to availability for Retiring or EASing military pilots in the normal application process.
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That is interesting.
While the music can stop at any time, the program announcement and associated timeline is interesting to me. The hiring at all the majors is red hot with the pool of highly competitive candidates continually shrinking. There’s been some leaks from AA showing there’s only 6,000ish qualified pilots in the applicant pool, meaning it’s likely similar across the big 3. Obviously there’s newly qualified applicants coming, but the hiring market is tight and programs like this will help secure pilots earlier in the pipeline as things continue to get even tighter.
While the music can stop at any time, the program announcement and associated timeline is interesting to me. The hiring at all the majors is red hot with the pool of highly competitive candidates continually shrinking. There’s been some leaks from AA showing there’s only 6,000ish qualified pilots in the applicant pool, meaning it’s likely similar across the big 3. Obviously there’s newly qualified applicants coming, but the hiring market is tight and programs like this will help secure pilots earlier in the pipeline as things continue to get even tighter.
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That is interesting.
While the music can stop at any time, the program announcement and associated timeline is interesting to me. The hiring at all the majors is red hot with the pool of highly competitive candidates continually shrinking. There’s been some leaks from AA showing there’s only 6,000ish qualified pilots in the applicant pool, meaning it’s likely similar across the big 3. Obviously there’s newly qualified applicants coming, but the hiring market is tight and programs like this will help secure pilots earlier in the pipeline as things continue to get even tighter.
While the music can stop at any time, the program announcement and associated timeline is interesting to me. The hiring at all the majors is red hot with the pool of highly competitive candidates continually shrinking. There’s been some leaks from AA showing there’s only 6,000ish qualified pilots in the applicant pool, meaning it’s likely similar across the big 3. Obviously there’s newly qualified applicants coming, but the hiring market is tight and programs like this will help secure pilots earlier in the pipeline as things continue to get even tighter.
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9 years ago - no company was looking at a mil pilot til within 30 days or so of “availability”. Oh how times change…
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A step in the right direction, but it's still pretty absurd that the company is insisting on having an ATP prior to a start date culminating in a checkride which would provide an ATP anyways. Yes we trust the training, yes we recognize you're qualified to take a military aircraft anywhere in the world, but to earn spot at TK first you need to prove you can pay $100 to Sheppard Air for the written test, then pay a few grand to any of the mil friendly ATP outfits. What exactly is that accomplishing besides encouraging folks to make Delta their first choice?
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fwiw, DL allows application up to 24 months from stated availability, and doesn't exclude me on the basis of being an AGR (hey I thought SCOTUS struck down affirmative action?¿ I keed I keed).
I dunno, this is a nothingburger to me, I'm with TechTanker on this one. CJO today don't do ish for me in two-three years, other than maybe arbitraging it against a different airline I'm more interested in. Heck, in 2020 many of those CJOs were effectively rescinded, as would be expected.
I mean, I get 'conditionals' all the time on LinkedIn for all sorts of jobs, that and a buck eighty gets me a brick of sugar wafer cookies at Walmart. It's getting that line number clock started ahead enough so I don't have to half-transcon commute (non-starter) to some HCOL reserve hot trash while waiting for Godot for my domicile of choice. That's what changes everything. One of my favorite scenes comes to mind:
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"pAy uR duUuUeS!" brigade in 3...2....
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I dunno, this is a nothingburger to me, I'm with TechTanker on this one. CJO today don't do ish for me in two-three years, other than maybe arbitraging it against a different airline I'm more interested in. Heck, in 2020 many of those CJOs were effectively rescinded, as would be expected.
I mean, I get 'conditionals' all the time on LinkedIn for all sorts of jobs, that and a buck eighty gets me a brick of sugar wafer cookies at Walmart. It's getting that line number clock started ahead enough so I don't have to half-transcon commute (non-starter) to some HCOL reserve hot trash while waiting for Godot for my domicile of choice. That's what changes everything. One of my favorite scenes comes to mind:
![](https://media.tenor.com/xmzSFQX8LwwAAAAM/ben-affleck-retainer.gif)
![Big Grin](https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
"pAy uR duUuUeS!" brigade in 3...2....
/stirpot
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