Originally Posted by
Cindypilot
When I talked to recruiters at WAI they asked if I had any internal recommendations, don't know a soul who works at Alaska. The recruiter told me they had over 3000 applicants & 1200 of those had internal recommendations. I'm trying to remain positive...haven't received the thanks but no thanks email.
AS is a top-notch airline. The current hiring criteria is 3,000 TT and they dropped the TPIC requirement and yet the only got 3,000 apps! Some of those who applied did not have 3,000 hours or an ATP. I heard JBLU only got 3,000 apps too! So much for those UAL war stories of getting 20,000 apps but that's was back when perhaps the mins were 350TT.
The group of 3,000 perhaps have their applications into Spirit, JBLU, Virgin, Atlas, etc.
The picture I am getting is there is not a large group of pilots out there looking for work.