Originally Posted by
beernutt
I can testify to the UAL interview being pretty confrontational 25 years ago. I got hassled because I couldn’t remember the MTOW of the Piper Chieftain I had flown 10 years earlier, then the mid-twenties female FO (in full uniform, including hat) pretty much accused me of padding my logbook. I laughed at her. I think I had around 9000 hours at the time, including around 3500 in 737s.
Things like that, designed to get under your skin.
The DL interview, for comparison, was more like talking about flying with friends you just met.
Is any of this relevant today? I don’t know. But I’m old, and I like telling boring stories of how it was ‘back in my day…’ Just ask any of the poor FOs sentenced to sit next to me for 4 days.
I had almost the same experience. Night and day. When I sat down with the Delta interviewers and one started talking about restoring a warbird, I knew I was home if they’d take me. I’ve spent my career feeling so lucky it went that way and I was hired here instead of there. Best of luck to everyone applying, testing, and interviewing out there.