Originally Posted by
iHateAMR
When you get interview calls from Alaska, Delta, American, Southwest, and FedEx, but not even a sniff from United, you start to wonder. At the time the Delta and United apps were near identical on airlineapps. So I called my buddy who’s been there for a couple of decades and knows people. He checked in on why I wasn’t called. He said it’s “some incident you have on your app.”
Obviously I know what my app said, and the only incident listed was occupying a jumpseat on an aborted take off in which we evacuated the jet after blowing the fuse plugs. I felt it noteworthy to list since I was on the crew. Delta didn’t see a problem with it, obviously neither did the other airlines. United did.
There was a time I wanted to work for United, but now I’ve found my fit and it’s all good. But that doesn’t negate the fact that United didn’t call because of said incident in which I was riding on the jumpseat. So back to the original poster, it’s not all good that you messed up your app at one mistake United, good luck!
Some of this is about luck. I had great connections at AA was living in South Florida and put all my effort into AA. Other than filling out the app I put 0 effort into UA. Never heard a peep from AA and have been at UA for 5 years now. I got lucky at United and unlucky at American.