Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
I've watched from the sidelines of been in the hunt for every hiring boom since the late 60s, it has always been thus. I've seen guys with great resumes, never get a call, others that were unimpressive get hired and vice versa. It is not about resume quals, the legacies, in particular, have a profile they want to interview and won't be budged by a resume, to AUTOTHRUST's point. Six of us in my squadron were turned down by American back in the day, everyone hired at EAL, go figure.
GF
American is definitely a weird one. One of their recruiters at OBAP told me that I need to get hired at Frontier to "Learn how to fly big airplanes". I've been flying 70 seat RJs into Aspen and Eagle during the winter for three years, clearly I have no idea how to fly big airplanes...