Originally Posted by
Turbosina
Yup, exactly. I was fortunate enough to go to UAL earlier this year. But I know of people who were overjoyed to get the CJO at AS (one even turned down a CJO at another carrier) who now have to re-interview for AS (sigh).
Seems like the only way to get hired at AS right now is to have an HA CJO. If you don't have that you'll likely need to wait until 2026 to get hired onto the 737 side of the operation. That's a lot of seniority to give up at a different airline. I was hired onto the Airbus side back in 2018 even though AS had already aquired VX so I'm well versed in being hired when two airlines have merged. The difference between then and now is AS was actually hiring people during 2018 onto the 737.