Originally Posted by
rjpurgatory
Thanks for that one!!! Best laugh I've had in three weeks of sitting in hotels for a bottom-feeding U.S. freight company!
Is CX still allegedly biased against U.S. Pilots? I interviewed with them three years ago and will be the first to admit that, although I studied for two moths, I still wasn't ready for it. But I've heard stories (on prune for what that's worth) about U.S. guys going to round 2 in HKG and getting hammered in the interview while the aussies skate through talking about the next Sevens championships and anything else NOT related to aviation. That's what I mean by "biased". Either way, I'm thinking of giving them another go now that I've got some 74 time, classic though it might be.
To a certain extent you could feel that way. The majority of our guys are Aussie and Brit so they have things in common that we don't. They sometimes have a tendency to think they invented flying, and it really makes them angry to remind them that WE did. Sometimes they also conveniently forget that the company was founded by an American. He had the airplanes.
Basically though, it is pretty harmless. They want us to conform to their way of doing things. In all honesty they have things they do better and we have things we do better. It's like trash talking on the football field, you can let it get to you or you can give it right back. I had two Aussies in my interview group and they had the same experience that I did. We had very similar interviews in terms of questions etc.
Which freight outfit are you with? I assume you spend a fair amount of time in ANC. If so, we'll have to meet up some time. Drop me a pm with the info.
Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
I can't speak from personal experience, but it seems as if they are hiring a healthy amount of Americans. The guys I know that have been hired have said that the interview is no gimme, but it seems that if you study up and know your stuff, you can get through it.
I have also heard that they can be less than totally accepting of Americans. I ran into a Canadian in LAX that said he ALSO felt some bias as well.
I'm a "Bloody Yank" and I got through. The Canadians get some stuff too but once we came along in greater numbers we were the new kid. The problem the company is having now is they expected us to chase the upgrade on the freighter. What they forgot to research is that most Americans could care less about being a Captain. We would mostly rather have lifestyle and jumping to the pax fleet as an fo is a whole lot easier than a command course here. For our Aussie and British brothers, they have a thing for being a Captain. More power to 'em. That has left a fairly large hole on the freighter Captain side. To each his own I guess.