I’m curious as to what was told to you folks, during the dog and pony show portion of the interview. I heard the interview staff was not filled with any pro union line pilots. It was all the max Kool-Aid types.

How did they spin your expected 5 plus year upgrade? Did they even mention it? Did they do the nod and wink, we got “Big Things in the works”, routine?

Keep in my mind a couple of things. The “your home every night”, is the case today for most. But, the minute it becomes cost effective to do overnights, pack your bags. Also, being on reserve here is as bad as it gets, for 121. You will be doing many overnights on reserve.

 

People like to say that for years and years.......and yet we still dont do overnites for about 99% of the schedule. As long as allegiant flies its ongoing successful model, they wont either.

 

In my perfect world I'd do nothing but stand ups/CDOs/High Speeds/Illegals/whatever you wanna call 'em. I like flying at night.

But I'm weird that way and Allegiant sent me a no joy e-mail anyway. :-)

There's a story, dunno if it's true or not, of a NWA DC-9 captain who managed to fly the last 20 years or so of his career without leaving the state of Michigan. CDO after CDO. It was just.... HIS THING.

I'd like a little more variety, but I just think that dude was hilarious.

 

Mr M what are your time's and types?

 

This theory doesn't work for me. 5000TT. 4000 turbofan, P121, SIC. 31yo. I'm not sure what "low time FOs" is in your eyes, but I can't see them hiring someone with less than 2,500TT.

 

Yeah, not sure what the theory is? My buddy just got a class with 10k+ hours.

 

They are really diverse when it comes to hiring. My class over 2 years ago had low time (3000+), High time (10,000+), Regional, Corporate, Military, 135 Charter, 135 Cargo..... You name it, we had it in our class.

 

for those interested in allegiant: outside of the debate on whether allegiant is good place to work, it is almost impossible to get an interview right now without an internal rec. not impossible, but almost impossible so for those applying and getting the thanks but no thanks dont read too much into it. maybe this will change in the future with the pilot shortage mirage seeming to be slightly closer in the far off distance. and for now and the near future allegiant will be difficult for anyone who doesnt want to live in florida because that is where the growth is and will be, and the schedules are not commutable.

good luck to everyone

-lucky

 

For those who got the "thanks but no thanks" letter, don't give up. I interviewed in February. Got the "thanks but no thanks" phone call. Then in October that same year I got a call from a Las Vegas phone number with someone asking if I was still interested in Allegiant. I said "yes" and they asked if I could make a class date 2 and a half weeks later. I later found out that I was actually put in a pool, but apparently someone dropped the ball and told everyone they didn't get the job. About half my class had the same story. All this to say, don't give up hope. Sometimes things at Allegiant aren't the most organized, and it sometimes shows in the hiring department.

Again, good luck to all who want to come. It's not for everyone, but I have been here since my son was an infant and I wouldn't trade the opportunity to see him and my wife everyday for anything.

 

CDOs went fairly senior at NWA. And it would've been possible for him to do so at a time with places like FNT, TVC, MBS, GRR, etc. Lots of guys liked them as they reported late and finished early. If you lived in base, they were a really good deal. A lot of guys were upset when they went away.

Sorry for the thread drift.