First off, like others have said, apply. You never know.

Use this advice. Don’t use. Doesn’t matter to me.

I used to work for an interview prep service and have more than 200 successful clients currently flying for Big D and I can tell you this.

There are younger folks who don’t have a lot of experience but are enthusiastic and are volunteering for everything in sight. There are more experienced folks who have a decade or so in the left seat and have been licking the glass over there just doing their line and going home.

Here’s a big thing most people overlook. This is an HR process, not a pilot process. If you walk into that room thinking the fleet captain of whatever is in charge of that interview, you are sorely mistaken. If you walk into that interview thinking you are a shoo in because “you already do the job and fly their branded passengers” be prepared to be disappointed.

Who is more likely to wow the HR folks? The enthusiastic person who is involved or the guy who is just beating the line? A lot of people think this is about hours and amounts. It’s not. It’s about how you “fit” at the airline according to HR. Once you have more than 2500 or so, you have the experience. Now your job is to show you’re not an
entitled douche that the captain is going to want to kill at the end of day 1.

Good luck to everyone. Last piece of advice-don’t trip over a few hundred bucks in your way to a multimillion dollar interview. Do everything in your power to ensure a good result. It is indeed worth it.