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Old 01-30-2015, 04:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Beechnut58 View Post
US Airways had the same deal. Idk if they still do. But they did a year or two ago.
It def wasn't listed on their website, as in maximum number of hours. It makes no sense from any viewpoint including trainability
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Old 01-30-2015, 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by dontsurf View Post
okay, the 1/27/15 interview session has been rescheduled for 2/10/15. I have the 8:30am slot. I will of course post details. i'm very excited about this opportunity. hopefully no blizzard (or potential blizzard) will mess me up this time! good luck to everyone who will be there that day. I look forward to meeting everyone.

just to review, i'm a regional captain, about 7200tt, 4100t-pic, flew 600+ hours in the past year, no internal recs and I don't even know any jetblue pilots, other than an asst chief pilot I had in my jumpseat a few months ago (who I obviously did not put down as a reference or anything). I don't know what caused them to call me, but i'm glad they did! I really don't want to go anywhere else. i'm 45 and I've got 20 years of a career left and i'd really like to spend it at jetblue.
I would try hard to find one guy/gal?
We are as pilots separated by three degrees...
If you can't what I did is... I used internal letters from my old job. I used my internal Check Airmen LOR, one of my FOs wrote me a LOR and a letter from DO at the time. I think you can have three still? Show the person going through your file who has never met you the many sides to your personality...my 2cents.
Interview is a lot of fun meeting everyone just relax and be yourself.
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Old 01-30-2015, 06:18 AM
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Originally Posted by airspeed1974 View Post
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US Airways had the same deal. Idk if they still do. But they did a year or two ago.




It def wasn't listed on their website, as in maximum number of hours. It makes no sense from any viewpoint including trainability
I didn't say it was a good idea. The way it was explained to me, Delta wants pilots who are flexible, and who will fly the way Delta tells them to. They believe that very experienced captains are less likely to conform. They probably have some metric that indicates that, since they have an entire team that tracks ALL metrics of the new hires.
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Old 01-30-2015, 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by 1Barracuda View Post
Lasted information I have heard is jetBlue will not hire pilots at 10,000+ hrs. Why is that?
If true, is there any hope for someone with well above that number and 10+yrs in the left seat at a regional (not a check-airman) to ever get a call to interview?
In 2013 my class had at least 2 guys with 10k+. Proabably more than that actually but those two I'm 100% positive about. Probably closer to 20k as they were regional guys in their 50's who I'm sure worked a lot.
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Old 01-30-2015, 07:38 AM
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Thanks for your reply. I had the same question. Appreciate your help.
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Old 01-30-2015, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Southerner View Post
I didn't say it was a good idea. The way it was explained to me, Delta wants pilots who are flexible, and who will fly the way Delta tells them to. They believe that very experienced captains are less likely to conform. They probably have some metric that indicates that, since they have an entire team that tracks ALL metrics of the new hires.
Didn't say that you did (: I could go on about this for hours...all I will say is I find that very hard to believe. Just imagine this, Pilot A has 15,000 hours flying for UAL, then UAL shuts down, so using this logic DAL wouldn't hire him???
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by airspeed1974 View Post
Didn't say that you did (: I could go on about this for hours...all I will say is I find that very hard to believe. Just imagine this, Pilot A has 15,000 hours flying for UAL, then UAL shuts down, so using this logic DAL wouldn't hire him???
Because UAL checklists respond with "check" while DAL checklists may respond with "set." :

How can a 10,000 hr pilot conform to learning a whole new callout system like that!
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:42 AM
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I'll take a WAG and say its way more than saying the right word. It's bad habits and bad attitudes. Ofcourse it's not posted on the website "10,000 hour pilots need not apply" but it has been told me by various people in training departments at different airlines.

Some guys I flew with at my previous airline..... Id love to be a fly on the wall if they ever had to be FO's again.
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Old 01-30-2015, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Beechnut58 View Post
I'll take a WAG and say its way more than saying the right word. It's bad habits and bad attitudes. Ofcourse it's not posted on the website "10,000 hour pilots need not apply" but it has been told me by various people in training departments at different airlines. Some guys I flew with at my previous airline..... Id love to be a fly on the wall if they ever had to be FO's again.
So first they want you to chuck down a lot of money to get your ratings. Then they want that coveted 4 year degree. Then they want that turbine PIC time. And in the end if you went out there and got 6000 plus turbine PIC hours maybe they will look at you more closely too? Wow, sounds like a hell of a deal to me......

All joking aside I'm quite curious as I do exceed some of these numbers and having just turned 41 I actually was one day looking to settle down at a major. So these "people" told you what exactly? And this comes from them.....having a high rate of 6000 turbine pic pilots with bad habits and attitudes?
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Old 01-30-2015, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by airspeed1974 View Post
So first they want you to chuck down a lot of money to get your ratings. Then they want that coveted 4 year degree. Then they want that turbine PIC time. And in the end if you went out there and got 6000 plus turbine PIC hours maybe they will look at you more closely too? Wow, sounds like a hell of a deal to me......

All joking aside I'm quite curious as I do exceed some of these numbers and having just turned 41 I actually was one day looking to settle down at a major. So these "people" told you what exactly? And this comes from them.....having a high rate of 6000 turbine pic pilots with bad habits and attitudes?

Don't forget they want you to "volunteer" to build huts in Honduras or Igloos in Alaska. You know, because you have to be worthy, like airline mgmts.
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