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Old 09-22-2019 | 09:43 PM
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Hi all I’m interviewing on October 1st just wondering about what kind of time from interview to class date? I’ve read here there have been delays due to length of time to complete the background check.

I’m thinking with that and the approaching holidays may not get a class date until Jan 2020

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Old 09-23-2019 | 04:25 PM
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I can't answer this question but I sincerely wish you the best of luck and admire your perseverance. Good luck!
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Old 09-23-2019 | 06:27 PM
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Everyone's experience will vary, but after interviewing, I found myself starting within two weeks...
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Old 09-23-2019 | 07:48 PM
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Lynn-

After looking through your posts on other regional threads, I would think very long and hard about coming to work here.

Commuting to reserve from SEA is not sustainable. Commuting to a line in one of our junior bases (CAE/MKE) would be difficult at best due to very early shows on day 1 followed by very late finishes on day 4. ORD has become almost the same. IAD is our only base with regularly commutable lines on both ends, and it’s our most senior base by a lot (not to mention being a transcon flight for you to get there).

Consider whether you are prepared to leave Monday afternoon to fly to MKE so that you can be available for a 0400 reserve availability period on Tuesday. Then, 5 days later on Saturday, you finally get released at 2300. After a 4 hour nap, you get to make a 2 leg commute back to SEA. You get to spend Sunday night at home, but have to be back on a plane Monday so that you can be in MKE again Tuesday morning at 0400.

There are “some” options where you could potentially move reserve days around to build a schedule with a block of days off, but it’s difficult and would still require you to be gone from home for weeks at a time.

Again, think carefully about whether or not you and your family can make that schedule work, or if you are comfortable relocating to the ORD/MKE/CAE area.
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Everything the above post is spot on Lynn. I’d look long and hard at Horizon or Skywest if you live in the PNW.
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Old 09-23-2019 | 09:20 PM
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Everything the above post is spot on Lynn. I’d look long and hard at Horizon or Skywest if you live in the PNW.
Horizon said no and I previously resigned from training at SkyWest. They said at the time I could reapply in 6 months
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Horizon said no and I previously resigned from training at SkyWest. They said at the time I could reapply in 6 months
I'd recommend Trans States then just for Denver. Compass is too uncertain. Gojet doesn't have flying in there past January. DEN would be a far easier commute and it's guaranteed at TSA.
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Old 09-23-2019 | 09:32 PM
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I'd recommend Trans States then just for Denver. Compass is too uncertain. Gojet doesn't have flying in there past January. DEN would be a far easier commute and it's guaranteed at TSA.
TSA said no also. I failed my checkride at GoJet they said I could come back in 6 months but with all the changes going on there and new people making the decisions when I did apply after the 6 months then waiting for a month for a decision they said no also.

So did Mesa
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Old 09-23-2019 | 10:06 PM
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Lynn-

After looking through your posts on other regional threads, I would think very long and hard about coming to work here.

Commuting to reserve from SEA is not sustainable. Commuting to a line in one of our junior bases (CAE/MKE) would be difficult at best due to very early shows on day 1 followed by very late finishes on day 4. ORD has become almost the same. IAD is our only base with regularly commutable lines on both ends, and it’s our most senior base by a lot (not to mention being a transcon flight for you to get there).

Consider whether you are prepared to leave Monday afternoon to fly to MKE so that you can be available for a 0400 reserve availability period on Tuesday. Then, 5 days later on Saturday, you finally get released at 2300. After a 4 hour nap, you get to make a 2 leg commute back to SEA. You get to spend Sunday night at home, but have to be back on a plane Monday so that you can be in MKE again Tuesday morning at 0400.

There are “some” options where you could potentially move reserve days around to build a schedule with a block of days off, but it’s difficult and would still require you to be gone from home for weeks at a time.

Again, think carefully about whether or not you and your family can make that schedule work, or if you are comfortable relocating to the ORD/MKE/CAE area.
I realize it’s far from optimal commuting from SEA but AWAC is willing to interview me so pretty much my only opportunity to try to make this happen.

I’m one of those later in life career changer. I was making a pretty good income at my previous employer. Not a bucket list thing just got here late in the day and trying to make it work.
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Old 09-24-2019 | 05:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Flyinlynn
I realize it’s far from optimal commuting from SEA but AWAC is willing to interview me so pretty much my only opportunity to try to make this happen.

I’m one of those later in life career changer. I was making a pretty good income at my previous employer. Not a bucket list thing just got here late in the day and trying to make it work.
I thought you had an interview with express jet as well?
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