Why Airlines Hire ATP Graduates

• Proven 25-Year Track Record
• Total-Immersion Flight Training
• Nationwide, Dispatched, Airline-Style
  Crew Cross-Country Flying
• Advanced Jet Training with Regional Jet Standards Certification & Citation Jet Transition

Why Career Pilots Choose ATP

• 25 Flight Training Centers Nationwide
• 142 Aircraft, 86 Multi-Engine
• Airline Recruiting Department
  for Job Placement
• Low Fixed-Cost, Housing Available

When preparing for an airline career, “You should acquire flight time that can do you the most good rather than just filling spaces in your logbook. For example, a pilot with 11,000 hours total time certainly had the quantity required, but unfortunately for him, the quality was somewhat lacking—only 50 of those hours were in multiengine (ME) airplanes. The regional airline he hoped to work for noted both his lack of total twin time as well as twin currency and Q&A suggested he reapply when he could show recent experience in line with their stated minimum of 300 hours ME time. He returned some six months later with the requisite time and was hired.”

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When thinking about the future, consider the puck. When hockey powerhouse Wayne Gretzky was asked why he was so successful, he replied, "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." The time to acquire FAA certificates and flight experience is right now. That "hiring puck" will be coming back into play. — Wayne Phillips. Published in AOPA Flight Training, January 2009.

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Watch this informative video that explains the long-term trends in airline pilot hiring and what it means to you. This video features commentary by airline industry expert Kit Darby. Kit has been quoted by USA Today and the Wall Street Journal and is known as the authority on pilot job market research. In this video, Kit discusses long-term trends relative to the current airline hiring cycle. He stresses that this is a smart time to begin flight training so that you will be qualified to enter the pilot job market on the front of the next hiring wave.

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Check out this video testimonial of Joiwind Alexander, ExpressJet First Officer and ATP Graduate.

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