Originally Posted by
MiLtoMajor123
hmm.....explain this new job/equipment in previous 5 years comment?
There was a time not long ago, but I believe it's passed. USAir (pre merge) wanted to know your last "training cycle", without one you had a hard time getting a call. Specifically if it was within the last few years. Since the merge, pretty sure it's gone. Plenty of off the street (non flows) hired that were stuck on the same plane for YEARS.
I also do have a B737 type, which I found out later that Alaska frowns (or used to) upon.
That's a common rumor. It all depends on how you deal with the question in the interview.
Maybe said guy SUCKED in the interview. For EVERY guy you hear about that "wasn't hired because of his 737 type" there's AT LEAST one that was.
AGAIN, plenty of dudes hired at (insert airline here) that wasn't SW and asked in the interview about the type.
I know......I know......someone is gonna chime in with "well I know so and so and the reason he wasn't hired was because he a had a 737 type and they were afraid he'd run to SW!!!!"
Crew room/ready room gossipy bovine scatology.