Originally Posted by
pilotgolfer
Wow...that seems like a giant waste of time. You could do the same thing over Skype or FaceTime. I hope you are at least making a vacation out of it.
It may seem like a waste of time to someone who already has the job.
To someone on the outside, spending a day or two for the m&g and possibly getting a leg up on thousands of other applicants is huge. When the company is hiring roughly 1000 pilots a year, every month you're on the outside is another ~80 pilots that will forever be above you on the seniority list, and thousands of dollars of missed opportunity.