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'Diversifying the cockpit:' United Airlines recruiting 5K pilots for new flight school; half will be women, people of color
ABC 7 Chicago ^ | April 6, 2021 | Karen Jordan

Posted on 04/06/2021 9:46:21 PM PDT by Stravinsky

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The airline industry expects to recover from the pandemic in a couple of years and when it does, United plans to diversify the cockpit.

It launched a flight school called United Aviate Academy with the goal of training 5,000 pilots by 2030. Half of which will be women and people of color.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...


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KEYWORDS: antiwhite; discrimination; neednotapply; racist; united; unitedairlines
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To: Stravinsky

I have been to the far corners of the world several times. I still have places I would like to see but won’t if I have to fly. No more for me.

Yes, the U.S. is finished. Wokeness has destroyed the family and us all.


101 posted on 04/07/2021 6:50:49 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Meatspace

“Why not let women and....”

Do you have information that they have been prohibited from these jobs as pilots?


102 posted on 04/07/2021 6:55:40 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: samadams2000; Third Wheel

I don’t care what color somebody is or what sex, just so long as he or she genuinely knows what they are doing.


103 posted on 04/07/2021 7:06:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Flick Lives

“The crash occurred while the entire cockpit crew was preoccupied with a burnt-out landing gear indicator light. They failed to notice that the autopilot had inadvertently been disconnected, and as a result, the aircraft gradually lost altitude and crashed.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401


104 posted on 04/07/2021 7:06:37 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: americas.best.days...

No they are prohibited and that’s why I stated that they should be qualified.

Obviously, all pilots need to be qualified and always make good decisions.


105 posted on 04/07/2021 7:09:41 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Stravinsky
Auburn Calloway. Just ask Fed Ex how a diversity sub par pilot turned out. Look it up. Calloway gave the 9-11 Terrorists the blueprint on how to destroy the Towers.
106 posted on 04/07/2021 7:18:50 AM PDT by vetvetdoug (,)
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To: Meatspace
So far we have been having the most qualified people getting jobs flying for the airlines. Soon we will have “qualified“. I remember when this happened with firefighters. There was testing to determine who would be in the next training class. People had to score in the high 90% to get into that class. When it changed from most qualified to qualified,it was determined that 70% meant a person was “qualified”. When not enough people in the desired groups scored that high, the tests were made easier.

I wonder how they will water down the flight hours, etc. to get the desired demographics into the cockpits.

At the Naval Academy, at least many years ago, each graduating midshipmen got to choose his type of service according to his ( now his or her) class rank. That is why McCain, graduating near the bottom of his class, could not go to flight school directly from the academy. With his father and grandfather both Admirals, somehow he got to fly a few years later and we know how that turned out.

Most qualified regardless of demographic is better than minimally qualified with different demographics getting a boost.

107 posted on 04/07/2021 7:27:27 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: All

What could go wrong?


108 posted on 04/07/2021 7:33:37 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Meatspace

So United has refused to hire women and black people as pilots and this is the first we’re hearing about it?

Wow. Shame on them. Surprised they got away with that for so long. Thanks for letting me know!


109 posted on 04/07/2021 7:38:30 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Tommy Revolts

Will they have to rename the cock pit to something more feminine?


110 posted on 04/07/2021 7:38:41 AM PDT by refermech
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Try getting into medical or dental school these days, if you are a Caucasian Male! Tashika Pocahontas Washington with GPA 2.2 - Congratulations, you’ve been accepted into the class of 2022!


111 posted on 04/07/2021 7:48:52 AM PDT by DrHFrog
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To: americas.best.days...

No, they have not been prohibited from working as pilots at United or any other U.S. based airline. Airlines should hire the most qualified pilots.


112 posted on 04/07/2021 7:55:41 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Meatspace

Oh.


113 posted on 04/07/2021 8:07:26 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: rb22982

And higher end white collar jobs, largely finance/accounting/strategy. Although the Corp effort to change that has started as well, one of the reasons I want to be able to retire in 6-8 years in mid to upper 40s and I encourage the younger guys to save like crazy. At least at my level I get a big severance check if that day comes although very hard to replace me at my company.
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As I said, all white-collar jobs are being filled with the Dot Indian invasion. Forgot a big one. Insurance and Medical. Instead of pleasant Filipina nurses, more and more smelly foul dot Indians are being hired as well. Remember there are 1.4 billion of them vs. 330 million Americans and they are like locusts in any job. Once they start moving into an area, that’s it for the natives.


114 posted on 04/07/2021 5:18:11 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: Stravinsky

115 posted on 04/07/2021 7:05:40 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: mikey_hates_everything

That movie is becoming more of a documentary every day. Scary thing is that it is supposed to be 500 years in the future. We are on pace to be fully tarded by 2030.


116 posted on 04/07/2021 7:26:48 PM PDT by Andrewksu
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To: grey_whiskers

By current leftist standards, it’s only real diversity if you have at least one tranny. Maybe the top row, third one in qualifies?


117 posted on 04/07/2021 8:07:28 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Starcitizen

I should be long retired before it catches up with me, if ever, and I get a big severance check even if I do get laid off, but its one of the reasons my wife and I are not having any kids and haven’t wanted any with our ~15 years of marriage. That said, I’ve personally been very impressed by Indian Americans here. They speak English well, work hard and invest in their families and communities, and many of them own companies, hotels, stores, etc that create a lot of jobs also. ~60% of hotels in the US are owned by Indian Americans, for example. They have also been very nice people in my experience.


118 posted on 04/08/2021 6:30:54 AM PDT by rb22982 ( )
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To: rb22982

They have also been very nice people in my experience.
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Only nice at racism, castism, cheating and stealing American jobs. They almost single-handledly wiped out the American white-collar middle class

IT/finance/accounting/medical/insurance and all taken over by these locusts. Americans need not apply.

Real estate (cheap hotels and cheap apartment complexes), truck stops as well.


119 posted on 04/08/2021 5:44:36 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: Starcitizen

No one is stopping anyone from investing in hotels and apartments, nor have I noted any racism or cheating among Indian Americans. The only cheating I see is in Corp America. I don’t know why you think they’ve taken over finance/accounting because it simply isn’t true - it’s absolutely dominated by whites and what Asians are in those jobs tend to be Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I am a senior finance exec that even travels around the US and elsewhere - finance is overwhelmingly white. You do realize white college degreed unemployment rate is like 3%, right?


120 posted on 04/08/2021 8:04:02 PM PDT by rb22982 ( )
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