Maybe some introspection would be helpful. Here’s how this scenario goes for most people:
- Applicant submits application & considers where his/her app might stack up against the rest. Applicant has several thousand hours, including a very competitive number of turbine PIC. This application, even with a blemish,
should stand out among much of the rest.
- Applicant patiently waits, but notices applicants with considerably lower flight qualifications getting “the call.”
- Applicant wonders what might be the cause of that & asks him/herself “I wonder if I submitted my application correctly, or if there are any errors or incomplete sections in my app that are causing it to be filtered and not even seen by a human.”
- Applicant thinks to himself (correctly), “Self, perhaps I should have someone take a look at this to make sure I’m not missing anything. It would be awfully silly to leave hundreds of thousands of dollars, perhaps even millions, on the table for something as simple as an error on an application that’s causing the computer to filter it out.”
- Applicant pays a paltry sum for a professional service to have an expert with direct inside knowledge on how this process works to review and improve his/her application.
- Applicant attends conferences, meet & greets, etc.
- Applicant receives invite to complete an online assessment & potentially interview in person.
You did virtually
none of that, going as far as to refer to a standard professional app review as “pay to play.”
I can’t adequately express to you how far outside the fringe of normal your approach to this has been.
If you’re not willing to consider & actively seek to fix your own mistakes in this process, why would any legacy airline want you on property?
Take it or leave it. Enjoy the CRJ in the meantime. We don’t care either way.
To quote my good friend Tay Tay: “It’s me. Hi…”
