2001 AA Interview Questions
 

1. Tell us about yourself.
2. What characteristics do you think make a good Captain?
3. What assets do you bring to American Airlines?
4. Tell us about what aircraft you've flown.
5. Please explain the hours you've logged in each aircraft.
6. Tell us what you know about American Airlines.
7. We have over 17,000 applications on file.Why should we hire you?
8. Tell us about a time you flew with someone you didn'tlike.
9. Tell us about a time that you had to counsel a flight crewmember.
10. What is the worst thing you 'veever done in an airplane?
11. What would you do if the economy turned bad and you were furloughed or you were left as a flight engineer?
12.What are two or three of your best and worst qualities?
13. What other airlines have you applied to?
14.Have you had any other interviews?
15. How would you characterize your grades in college?
16. Tell us something about you that is not indicated in your paperwork.
17. How did you prepare for this interview?
18. Why do you want to work for American?
19. What excites you about American?
20. What do you do in your spare time?
21. If you are on a three-degree glide path and five miles out. How high are you?
22. How do you determine the runway remaining using centerline lights?
23. What makes you happy?
24. What is the dumbest thing you ever did in an airplane?
25. When do you have to wear your shoulder harness?

26. What order are the stripes on American 's aircraft? (red/white/blue bottom to top)
27. Tell us about your driving record.
28. What type of person really gets under your skin?
29. Tell us about a time when you went beyond the call of duty.
30. What do you think about your chief pilot?
31. What would your attitude be if you were called into the chief pilot 'soffice to discuss your sick leave?
32. Tell us about your progress in your flying career.
33. What are your most favorite and least favorite crew member types?
34. What is the best crewmember type in your mind?
35. What additional things do you think about when entering icing on takeoff, enroute, approach and landing?
36. Be prepared to answer any questions about any discrepancies in your logbook.
37. Be prepared to discuss any gaps in employment.
38. In your own fantasy, where will you be in 10 years?
39. How would you feel about still being a flight engineer in a few years?
40. What would you do if you got home and you get a call from Delta saying you've been hired?
41. Be prepared to talk about scenarios involving low and slow captains.
42. Tell us what the best thing about flying for American will be.
43. What type of instructor pilot do you like to fly with?
44. Who was the worst instructor pilot you ever flew with?
45. When was your last check-ride?
46. What would your evaluator say the three best and three worst things you did on your check-ride?
47. What is the definition of good airmanship?
48. On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate yourself?
49. Who is the worst pilot you ever flew with?
50. How would you rate him?

51. Do you have fun flying?
52. Who is the best person you ever worked with and why?
53. How would you rate that person?
54. What makes a good Captain? Would you make a good Captain?
55. How would you brief your crew if you were the captain?
56. What five things in your life fulfill you?

57. Is friendship important in the cockpit?
58. How is the training where you work now?
59. Do you get along well with others and why?
60. Do you find that others confide in you and seek your advice?
61.If you notice someone feeling blue, do you try to help? What do you say to them?
62. How would you handle it if you lost your medical?
63. Why should we hire you?
64. What qualities do you look for in someone you enjoy flying with?
65. How would you brief an instrument approach in low weather or low visibility?
66. If you went missed approach in the weather, what would you do?
67. What criteria would you use to decide to hold or proceed to your alternate? What qualifies as an alternate?
68. When do you need a takeoff alternate and how do you choose one?
69. If you hear a loud bang after takeoff, what is the first thing that comes to mind and what would you do?
70. Where did you receive your flight training and how did you choose it?
71. If you are furloughed after 2 years and then United calls and offers a job, what would you do?
72. If a passenger put a portable generator in the overhead bin and it started leaking gas 1/3 of the way to destination and the passengers started feeling ill,what would you do?
73. You are a FO on an MD-80 10 minutes prior to boarding and 30 minutes prior to departure and the captain is not there.How would you handle it if 2 of the 3 flight attendants were having a wild argument?

74. You are the FO on an MD-80 at FL 330 and the Captain is headed straight for a cell. What would you do?
75. What would you do if the weather goes below minimums and you are outside the FAF? Inside the FAF?
76. What ways would you determine the destination weather while you were enroute?
77. How would you handle landing in high winds? Walk me through the approach including all factors?
78. How would you brief a departure in icing conditions?
79. How would you handle a FO who is technically proficient, but annoying?
80. How do you prepare for a flight?
81. Do you have a mentor?
82. What do you consider when flying an IFR departure?
83. What is the dumbest thing you ever did in an aircraft?
84. What would you do if the captain arrived at the aircraft smelling of alcohol?
85. What was the biggest decision you ever made?
86. Be prepared to answer any questions about abnormalities of your current aircraft.
87. Tell us about a leadership position you have held.
88. What do you consider when taking off on a contaminated runway?
89. What was the biggest mistake you ever made in an aircraft?
90. Have you ever been dismissed from a job?

91. Have you ever quit in lieu of being dismissed?
92. Have you ever been previously employed by AMR?
93. What would you do if the captain got 5 knots slow? 10 knots slow? 15 knots slow?
94. What qualities do you have that our other applicants may not have?
95. How would you make a new flight engineer feel comfortable?
96. What would you do if you and the captain were reading different airspeeds? What could cause that?
97. What was the biggest mistake you ever made as a pilot?

98. When you were in a leadership position,tell us about a time you were disappointed in how you handled an issue.
99. When you were a check airman, were you ever faced with a difficult situation? How did you handle it?
100.If you are the FO or FE and you discover a broken component during the preflight, what would you do?
101. If the flight engineer, captain or first officer are doing something you don't like,what would you do?
102.You are the captain and it?s the first flight for you flight engineer. What do you say and would you watch him or her closely?
103. Would you have a problem flying nights or working odd hours?
104. What will be the most challenging part about working for American?
105. Fire in cabin after going missed approach on an ILS with alternate 30 minutes away. What would you do?
106.Brief this approach. What are the minimums? VDP?
107. When would you start your descent from FL300 to land at San Juan? What things would change that?
108. Do you have any questions for us?

Good luck!!

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Wow. What a list! Thanks for posting.

Thx Big Slick. Good stuff. Every little bit helps.

I didnt see listed but is

"Did you ever have a conflict with a supervisor?"

touched on? common interview question these days at many places

How about the o'l "do you look back at your turds when you take a crap"?

Thanks. Knew this was out there somewhere...

How long was the interview? Two weeks?

1.5 hrs. Maybe slightly longer. Started every two hours. Bathroom break, paperwork, quick snack, etc, etc for the interviewers keeps the interview slightly shorter.

How did you get these questions? Are you in the hiring department? Did you interview and some how remembered all questions asked? Please tell us.

I was hired in 2001. Those are the questions that I got from my buddies at AA to prep for the interview. They used to be posted on a site called, "willflyforfood.terrashare.com" (no www.) that does not exist anymore.

I was moving recently and I found this list of questions in a box. I had printed them out back in the day. I scanned them and uploaded them on here.

I have no idea if they will use these questions, but it is at least a starting point. Once the interviews get going, there will be a lot more information available. These are pretty standard interview questions, so it can't hurt you to come up with answers for them.

Good luck!

Every little bit counts, thanks for the help.