Graduated
82% of 2024–25 starts
82% finished.
Every student who started Zero Time to Airline in 2024 or 2025 and has since graduated or left. Students still training are excluded, because counting them would flatter the number.
Best single cohort
96%
Median time to finish
13 months
Now instructing here
48 graduates
Every cohort.
By the year they started. A start is resolved once the student has graduated or left, so the 2025 bar still moves.
2023
60%
131 graduated of 217 resolved starts · all resolved
2024
82%
202 graduated of 246 resolved starts · 4 still training
2025
82%
106 graduated of 130 resolved starts · 96 still training
2023 was a 60% year and we are not hiding it. Sixty percent of the people who started that year finished. The fixes were unglamorous: tighter scheduling, more aircraft on line, earlier intervention when a student fell behind the syllabus. The rate went to 82% the following year and has held there for two years.
2024, month by month.
Twelve cohorts, all fully resolved. July was 96%. The two weakest were a five-person and an eleven-person cohort, where one student moves the number twenty points.
80%
Jan
24/30
87%
Feb
20/23
76%
Mar
25/33
64%
Apr
7/11
88%
May
7/8
85%
Jun
22/26
96%
Jul
25/26
90%
Aug
26/29
73%
Sep
24/33
75%
Oct
12/16
70%
Nov
7/10
60%
Dec
3/5
Graduated / started, per monthly cohort. Small cohorts swing hard: December 2024 started five people.
Where they are now.
Every one of these started at zero hours. The dates are their real start and graduation dates.
Envoy Air
Jacko V.
Jan 2024started, zero hours
Aug 2025graduated
19 monthsstart to finish
Delta
Samuel S.
Jan 2020started, zero hours
Jul 2020graduated
6 monthsstart to finish
SkyWest
Kylee E.
Aug 2020started, zero hours
Dec 2021graduated
16 monthsstart to finish
Southwest
Christopher M.
Jul 2020started, zero hours
Mar 2021graduated
8 monthsstart to finish
Piedmont
Megan L.
Jun 2020started, zero hours
Mar 2021graduated
9 monthsstart to finish
United Airlines
Yun L.
Aug 2019started, zero hours
Aug 2020graduated
12 monthsstart to finish
NetJets
Joshua F.
Sep 2020started, zero hours
Jun 2021graduated
9 monthsstart to finish
Breeze
Carlyn A.
Feb 2020started, zero hours
Dec 2020graduated
10 monthsstart to finish
These are current employers, not first jobs. Nobody walks out of flight school into a Delta cockpit. The FAA requires 1,500 hours of flight experience before any airline can hire you, and Thrust gets you to roughly 250. The years in between are what the instructor ratings are for.
48 of them work here.
They finished the program, earned CFI and CFII, and stayed to instruct. They are paid to fly while they build the hours an airline requires, and they are teaching the students who came in behind them.
Every ZTA graduate with instructor credentials is offered an interview here. No offer is guaranteed, and it depends on your record and on what staffing looks like when you finish.
How the program works→
What the program does not do
It does not guarantee a job. No school can, and the FAA rule is the reason: 1,500 hours of total flight experience before an airline can put you in the right seat. Thrust gets you to commercial standard at roughly 250 hours with both instructor certificates, which is the fastest legal route to earning while you close that gap.
It does not guarantee you finish, either. Eighteen percent of people who started in 2024 and 2025 did not. A student who stops keeps every certificate already earned.
Where you can work the week after you graduate
- Flight instructor, if you took ZTA 2
- Second-in-command for a Part 135 charter operator
- Second-in-command for a Part 125 operator of large aircraft
- Pilot-in-command for a Part 91 operator, which covers corporate flight departments, banner towing, survey and other general aviation work
Direct airline pathways
Envoy Air, SkyWest, Avelo, Republic Airways and Air Wisconsin. Airline partners review student progress during the program, which is how the strongest students get attention before they are looking for a job.
Ask for the numbers behind this page. Every figure here comes from our own records and an advisor can walk you through them, including the students who did not finish and why.
Would you be one of the 82%?
Four questions. An advisor will tell you what your actual starting point looks like, including the answer that is not Zero Time to Airline.
See if I qualify→Worth a look.