App window possibly opening in August
 

OCT start date, estimating 600 new hires (thru next year.)
App window most likely opening in August.
No more 3-day process like it used to be.
All this from several sources at the school house, including union folks. (still not 100% official but pretty close to it.)

Good luck to all, gonna be great to have new hires here again.

Interesting. And good news. I bet the hiring process gets merged with US sooner rather than later. No point in hiring to two separate sides after the POR.

Would there be any benefit of getting hired at AA instead of US in the fall? Is it DOH for those hired after the Feb 14 announcement?

Does AA do a probationary checkride like Eagle?

I don't know, but US Air has a weird hiring process. They just rejected me, because I didn't meet their requirement of going through a newhire groundschool within the previous 4 or 5 years.

You would think the company would want to hire somebody who has a stable employment history instead of bouncing around from job to job.

Maybe when AA starts hiring, they'll have more reasonable requirements.

Flyby: Nobody knows exactly when the "snap shot" will be. For now, it's probably safe to assume (Misnomer!) that anything after 2/14/13 would be DOH. To me, getting hired by either/or is one and the same at this point.

Probationary check ride? Good question. I know I had to go in to the chief's office at my 1 year anniversary for the official blessing. Was supposed to be kind of a mini oral but we ended up shooting the sh1t. I also had a check engineer around the 1 year mark who "observed" my most excellent duties keeping the cabin temp, pressurization, and fuel all within reasonable (new hire) limits. :D

Actually, there is. Until the SOC and SLI are complete, the two sides still operate separately for all intents and purposes. US is hiring now because we need bodies now. AA is recalling now because it needs bodies now, and is hiring because its run out of recalls that want to come back. While it won't matter which side you get hired on if you're hired now (the correct answer is, whoever calls first!), there will probably be separate hiring for the next 12-18 months until the logistics of stitching the two airlines together are resolved.

The closure of the corporate transaction this summer/fall has no impact on any of that.

VFC

wow, what is this ? 1998 ?

great news aa73, congrats for your company. My opinion is AA has a great future as it exits the current storm cells

Ya, My understanding was Eagle has a 1 year ride that if you fail your done. Didn't know if that was a carry over from AA.

US Air moves your second check ride up a few months to serve as a probationary ride.