Originally Posted by
conquestdz
Do you have airline stink? I have been to an interview where the guy doing the interview showed me a stack of resumes from people with way more time than me, but said he wouldn't hire them because they had been flying for the airlines. They don't want guys that never file their own flight plans, or load the luggage themselves, or clean the lav, or.....
That kind of narrow-minded attitude is a great way to exclude otherwise excellent candidates.
I was hired into my current company from the right seat of an RJ; Chief Pilot at the time was hesitant to hire an airline pilot (and one that did union work to boot) but the big bossman had no such qualms.
Doing your own flight plans, loading luggage, cleaning, or any other ancillary corporate pilot duty isn't rocket science or difficult...and anybody who does interviews worth a damn should be able to tell if a given candidate thinks their job will begin and end with driving the airplane.