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09-30-2013 | 11:53 PM
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Why do they even have a medical exam when everyone interviewing probably has a first class medical? And as if it is relevant anyways when many of the pilots working for US airlines are incredibly fat and unhealthy.
10-01-2013 | 03:36 AM
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American Airlines has a long history of conducting "Astronaut Physicals" on their applicants.
10-01-2013 | 05:07 AM
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10-01-2013 | 05:35 AM
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720 interviewees, [30 slots * 24 times]
600 trainees, [25 per class * 12 months per year * 2 classes per month]
300 off the street [600 / 2]
So a 41.7% acceptance rate from those granted an in person interview.
I think UAL has offered jobs to about 80% of those who make it to the face-to-face interview, so I suppose they must be pickier about who they invite to Denver.
10-01-2013 | 06:23 AM
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Robtree - I used a '???' because there are uncertainties.
The average is 300/year.
They talk about sometime achieving 24 interviews with 30 guys at some unknown time in the future.
Your assumption uses 600 guys a year. The only known hiring rate is 2x25 anticipated through summer 2014. If they keep that up for all of 2014 they're looking for 900 guys in the next 4 yrs, or 225/yr.
I'd find it surprising if they run 24x30 for the first 450(50% of 2014) off the street hires and then maintain 720 interviews to hire 122 off the street guys for each year after 2014.
Using the average hiring rate and maximum interview rate the acceptance level could be as low as 20%(ergo the ???). But during the previous cycle I think the acceptance rate was much higher.
The average is 300/year.
They talk about sometime achieving 24 interviews with 30 guys at some unknown time in the future.
Your assumption uses 600 guys a year. The only known hiring rate is 2x25 anticipated through summer 2014. If they keep that up for all of 2014 they're looking for 900 guys in the next 4 yrs, or 225/yr.
I'd find it surprising if they run 24x30 for the first 450(50% of 2014) off the street hires and then maintain 720 interviews to hire 122 off the street guys for each year after 2014.
Using the average hiring rate and maximum interview rate the acceptance level could be as low as 20%(ergo the ???). But during the previous cycle I think the acceptance rate was much higher.
10-01-2013 | 07:14 AM
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, when they were hired they went through it.
10-01-2013 | 07:34 AM
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While they said "height and weight proportional", I had heard that 200 lb was a mysterious cutoff point, and my normal height/weight was 6' 3" / 220 lb. I dropped to 195.
Of course my initial issue of uniform trousers were too small in just a few months.
10-01-2013 | 08:03 AM
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