Originally Posted by
Atomized
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.
The meet and greets are not part of the interview process. The job fairs are not part of the interview process. The chief pilots have very little input to the process right now. It's just the opportunists trying to take your money that are pushing these ideas.