Originally Posted by
Excargodog
nope. It looks bad to the computer algorithm screening the airline apps so your application doesn’t get seen by a human being at all. You’ve already got enough going against you with the FAA violation (which you will need to report even if you got it ‘cleared’). You do not want to make it even more difficult to get your app pulled, nor do you want to sit there and explain in an interview how you took a job, let them put you through training, and then reneged because you found yourself the junior man assigned to a base that was not your first choice, sitting reserve with a cr@ppy commute, cause guess what?
At any major that might hire you you will be the junior man, on reserve at some base that probably isn’t your first choice, with a cr@ppy commute.
at least if you wait out the year they won’t think you were resigning in lieu of being booted out your probationary year.
Fair to point out that at many regional carriers your probationary clock doesn't end until 12 months after you've completed IOE. Not sure how that may or may not factor into computer algorithms and/or reference phone calls. I know that case law says it's a bad idea to say anything other than applicant XYZ worked there, but the airline industry is small and insular, and if old company factually said you left during your probationary period and just left it at that, it might still burn you, even if it had been 13 months or something and you voluntarily resigned to chase better opportunities.