Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
We have had more trouble getting guys through training recently. The rejections are most likely based on recency and 121 (or similar experience) deficiencies. They liked you enough to pass you through phase one, and assuming your background was good, they drooped you guys out of phase two for recency and experience in 121 or similar. It really sucks they made you wait so long, but the requirements changed mid process due to recent training fails.
I do feel bad for you being strung along. To the guy that asked about going to a regional, although not pleasant, I think it would help tremendously. I think it would increase your chances at JB and every other major airline. High tempo ops multi-crew turbojet time after passing a 121 turbojet training program is very much what they want to see. Doesn't have to be a regional airline, also try a cargo operator or national like allegiant, frontier, etc...
Can anyone chime in what background their washouts have come from?
How many have been highly-experienced fighter/instructor/evaluator pilots like rdc who (like most retiring mil pilots) have flown <200 hrs the past year? I wonder if they know that frontline fighter/attack guys are getting <150.
I'm a guy who fits that profile and had flown ~100/yr hrs the 2 years prior to starting with JB, and all of that in C-172/182s. I'd never piloted anything larger than a fighter. The only problems I had with training were trying to figure out the 121 environment. All that took was a bit more work, no extra training, and I walked out with a clean checkride.
Seems to me they've done a poor analysis of the problem and come up with easy answers. As the big boys start ramping up hiring (and if you didn't know, the hydrant is wide open right now), unless JB is willing to do the hard work of a bottom-up review of both hiring and training shops, slaughtering a few sacred cows, and negotiating a competitive CBA in good faith, they're going to have a tough time staffing their airline with people with whom you'd want to fly… or to fly your family.