Originally Posted by
buddhapilot
I just got an invitation to interview at Mesa and have a few questions I'm hoping some of you will be willing to answer. My background is military aviation (transports) and have been working as a DoD contract sim instructor for the last 10 years - so I have no commercial aviation experience.
1) What interview questions can I expect?
2) What kinds of answers are they looking for?
3) If I get offered a position, do I take CRJ or E175?
4) If I get offered a position I will be commuting. Do you commute on your days off or on the 1st & last days of your trip?
Thanks in advance.
I don't know about 1 and 2....just be yourself. They really really want to hire you.
3) Think about where you live and what's the easiest base to get to. I don't think there are any more planes coming, so you can't bid to a growing fleet right now. We're understaffed in everything.
4) Once you get a schedule (should be quick), you try to bid trips that start late and end early enough to commute on the day the trip starts and commute home the day the trip ends.