After meeting dozens of Frontier pilots, several phenomenal members of the HR staff, upgrades in GS, newhires, a cool intern, an instructor, a crew scheduler or two and many other employees working at F9 headquarters, I cannot think of a more prestigious title by which I could be called in this entire industry than a FRONTIER pilot!
These guys and gals were the best I've EVER seen. Professional - personable - fun - warm - interesting - kind - transparent - honest - helpful - genuine - and simply down to earth! I could fill this page with adjectives like these! There is no question they are ardently loyal to one another, and their airline.
People with no connection to the hiring process went out of their way to not only welcome us, or say hello, but to stop and spend an hour or more talking to us about everything and anything. Nothing was off the table, and they were extremely candid. ...Impressive and refreshing!
I totally expected a healthy serving of Kool-aid, and I wouldn't have necessarily held that against them. Listen to me very carefully! It didn't happen, period. And I was looking for it hard! Do you think I'm just kissing some butt right now with my words? Thinking someone is reading this? Are you kidding? - I already got the job! If I'm kissing anyone's butt right now, it's my very own for
picking the next best risk vs reward combination in the USA! And by the way those are my words, not theirs, they would never have uttered such presumptuous words - but I will.
I'm not an experienced interviewer by any means but 4 years ago I was invited to a day-long open house out in FL for a particular airline. It was like a shallow date with lots of blue juice on her face - I mean makeup. There was nothing shallow about Frontier's people or their process. Definitely the one you wanna take home to mama!
The process by the way is masterfully put together. If you get the opportunity to go through it. Be ready to enjoy yourself fully. Totally worth the month of preparation I put myself through. This day was something I was obviously excited about, but in all honesty I was kind of dreading it. Something to just get through, hoops with which to jump. But within minutes of arriving it turned into an entirely different animal - a unique, and fun experience that in retrospect ranks among one the coolest experiences I've had. I concede, I may be biased on this one point because it ended well
Nevertheless - I'm convinced there's nothing like it out there. It is multifaceted & layered, yet strait forward without tricks, and I deduce, it is designed entirely to get to know the real you.
So let me close by saying this... I've got an exceedingly good feeling about this place. And I'm pretty sure every human being from Lakes to Delta would agree that these folks deserve all the blue sky they can find ahead of them. I'm humbled that I've been asked to help them get there. I didn't exactly have a stellar performance - but I did let my guard down and tried hard not to hide who I am. It seems to have worked. Tonight, I live on top of the world!
-Sulkair