Originally Posted by
BoeingJetPilot
I'd sure appreciate hearing from anyone who's had their Flexjet phone interview recently. I'm doing mine on Monday afternoon.
It's scheduled for just 30 minutes; I'm guessing it's going to be mainly general HR questions, but it's been a long time since I last interviewed with anyone and any feedback is helpful!
I'm winding down my airline career and Flexjet looks to me like a really good next place to hang my hat.
Thank you.
I interviewed with three fractional operators and a 135. Flexjet was first and it could have gone better. I wasn't prepared for interviewing after decades since my last job interview. I was fortunate in that I got three offers after Flexjet but I felt bad about not being better prepared with answers to question relating to customer service.
You would be well served by going to the airline interviews web site and looking it at what is current. It's not expensive and worthwhile.
You may also want to really research just what you will be doing flying fractional/charter. I really enjoy it but it's not 121 airline flying. And you will be hands on dealing with a lot of mundane things that were taken care of for you. Catering, cleaning, flight planning, there's a lot more on you and your captain. And that's another thing to get used to, the right seat. I work for a place where we are splitting PIC duties (unless we are flying with F/Os) but at Flex you will be right seat for a few years. Be ready to answer how you will accept flying with a much younger, less total time captain. Of course, recognizing that he/she knows more about the operation than you do helps.
We have lost a few guys who didn't realize that 91k/135 is a whole different world. And you will be working harder than you were used to as a senior airline guy if you get on with Flex or NetJets.