Here is the press release:
Award-winning Jet Blue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU) today announces the creation of the Aviation University Gateway, a career-planning and mentoring program designed to identify and recruit talented men and women into the professional pilot ranks
Jet Blue is partnering with prestigious aviation programs at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to fill the Aviation University Gateway’s pipeline with top-flight candidates who demonstrate exceptional potential as professional pilots. Jet Blue is also partnering with Massachusetts-based Cape Air to be the program’s first regional airline partner, giving Aviation University Gateway participants valuable flying experience prior to interviewing at Jet Blue.
The Aviation University Gateway path is open to Embry-Riddle students with high academic standing (GPA of 3.0 or above) and recommendations from their professors. It requires a successful series of interview with Jet Blue and a regional airline partner, as well as the continued enrollment in an Aviation Accreditation Board International (ABBI)-accredited aviation program. During the Gateway program, participants will intern at Cape Air (and eventually other regional airline partners) and then serve as an instructor at the Embry Riddle Flight Department, earning 1,500 flight hours. Following that process, candidates will fly with Cape Air for at least two years, earning another 2,500 hours. With a total of 4,000 flight hours under their belt, program participants are then eligible for a final interview at Jet Blue.
I am currently a sophomore on scholarship at ERAU and I am working on my commercial. I planned on doing fast track CFI and CFI-I over the summer and working the next 2-3 years to build time but now I am wondering if I should go for the interview this week and try to earn a spot in the program.
I am just looking for advice if anyone thinks this whole bridge thing is a good idea or if I would be better off trying to get on at a regional after instructing and then take it from there.
Here is some more info:
http://www.flycapeairjobs.com/industry.htm
Thanks