Originally Posted by
Dejavu
You take what u can . Don't judge them .without knowing them .
You talk as if u can walk up into any airline and get a job .
I got friends that got shot down at eagle a week ago . Friends that got shot down at republic as well . Who knows what there are looking for . They all had the times and where flying part 135 and some were even md80 captains with 12000tt flying 121
Originally Posted by
Slats
Yes you can if you prepare and have a clean record. Your friends that got "shotdown" either 1. Didn't prepare adequately enough for the interview or 2. Lack a clean background. Both RPand Eagle are offering bonuses meaning.... If you're offered to interview the job is pretty much yours...
As for the MD80 guy with 12000tt.... Flight time/experience doesn't promise a job. Being interview ready, no hiccups and a clean background does.
Being that G7 pretty much takes anyone with a heartbeat convinces me that they had exhausted their options through fault of their own.
Slats, not the case. I know MANY pilots (myself included) with thousands of hours turbine PIC, college degrees, years of 121 and 135 experience, zero pink slips or other such zombies in the closet that can't even get to the interview point. Much of that today, from what I was told by an HR person at a major, was that since computers "grade" the initial sort, anything that doesn't meet 1 simple parameter gets kicked to the curb because the computer can't see beyond that. You could be Chuck Yeager but if you only flew 300 hours in the past year, but the company wants 400, oh well thanks but no thanks. Now if you were talking strictly regionals, I'd tend to agree with you, however it seems experience hurts you these days as well there too. They want guys right by ATP mins, not the furloughed 5000 hour guy who is gonna bail since he already has his stuff in at a major.