Originally published at: FAA Requires Airlines To Certify Merit-Based Pilot Hiring
New operations specification follows federal directive on hiring practices.
What does “most qualified” mean? The FARs don’t provide for more or less qualifications to obtain a particular certificate. You’re either qualified or you’re not.
If the two in the cockpit do not get along, it doesn’t matter how qualified they are, there is a safety issue.
Well, the United CEO may be too busy dancing around as a drag queen to be bothered with such minutia. His statement of DEI pilot hiring is proof positive to avoid UAL at all costs!
Hiring of airline personnel should always be merit based. As passengers we deserve and demand to be in the best managed, maintained, and piloted aircraft.
If I am to be employed by an airline or anyone else, I want to know I earned the job and that I was the best person for the position.
Whoever suggested this rule doesn’t understand how aviation works. It has never been, and will never be, a so-called DEI activity.
You are either not familiar with the airline industry, or you are misrepresenting the truth.
the airlines are rife with DEI, and those of us who have spent decades working in the industry could give you many, many examples of it.
But I suspect your virtue-signaling answer indicates an aversion to the hard truths you’d see.
The UAL CEO has FIVE kids. I doubt he has any time for being a drag queen. You can boycott UAL all you want. You sound like Spirit and SW material anyway. Best to just stay in your trailer park where you can feel safe.
“When families board their aircraft, they should fly with confidence knowing the pilot behind the controls is the best of the best”
Where did the pilots who ranked second-best go? Abroad? 
Does this certification requirement also extend to foreign airlines that pop in to take American families to more civil places? I suspect a number of them will have no qualms telling Duffy where to shove his certificate. Dictating hiring practices to private industry certainly seems like gov’t overreach.
Complete worthless FAA mandate! Duffy is proving to be another unqualified ring kisser. Political posturing just to appease Trump’s agenda. There’s real work to do!
Too bad your homeess camp doesn’t have wifi because all you have to do is Google “United Airlines CEO drag queen” and you can be totally disgusted watching a video of him dancing and singing in a dress.
Pretty well established that was CREATED with AI. It’s amazing what AI can generate. I could make one of your wife with a donkey if you like.
We need that donkey video for the AI suceptible donkey.
AI Generated Drag Queen United CEO:
Yes, the video claiming to show United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby in drag was false and AI-generated . The clip, which went viral on social media in early 2024, was fabricated to look like a real person but was actually created using artificial intelligence.
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Its about damn time. Hopefully DEI hiring is gone.
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