
Regarding my personal experience in the flying community, they should be getting into the airlines now and would’ve at the very least had their licenses before the end of the last administration. Not saying they aren’t qualified, but I do know people who were very qualified passed over for many opportunities in the community and the opportunities given to those who were objectively less qualified. BIPOC and female pilots aren’t the issue, passing over qualified people for a quota is.
See but “prioritized for admission into flight school over someone ‘more qualified’ by virtue of their daddy owning an airplane” is clearly not the same as “allowing unqualified pilots to fly commercial airliners” and the people who have tried to equate the two out of their own racial animus are stupid and/or just plain racist.
plenty of more qualified pilots of all races have been passed over for less skilled rabdom white dudes too. this is simply a expected part of job seeking. no hiring process is truly meritocratic, and all the pilots hired are qualified at the end of the day. this is a non-issue unless you feel entitled to a job