Navy Pilot To Airline Captain: How Military Aviators Move To Delta, United & American Airlines

Getting the job is the easy part. A naval aviator who completes the proper paperwork drill can be in a commercial cockpit within months after leaving the military. However, that pilot begins in the right seat at the bottom of an airline's seniority chart. That puts pilots with thousands of hours in military airframes behind colleagues who may have a fraction of that time.