Application Question
 

Good Morning! I’m a newbie to the airline application process having spent the last 25 years in Corporate Aviation. I have applications complete and ready to submit but have a question. I am not available to be released from my current job until May 2018, 7 months from now. Should I put that date in my application or put the standard 2-4 weeks notice and pass on an interview until then, should I actually get called? I understand this is a pretty long process and probably isn’t even an issue, but I’ve heard of people getting called pretty quickly. Thanks in advance!

You need to put your actual available date.

Corporate guys like you are coming out of the woodwork all of a sudden, if they like your package they might well call you immediately. If you're honest it won't be an issue, they'll put you in the pool and hope you won't bother to interview anywhere else in the meantime.

But if you show up at an interview, where they expected and might be planning on you starting in two weeks, and tell them it's really six months... that would be the end of that.

That’s what I figured. Thank you very much!

Put your actual date. When you interview with Delta, for example, they will have your application printed out and you will sign it saying that it is a) correct, and b) your availability date is true.

If you put that you're available in 3 weeks and they offer you a class date in 4 weeks, but you're really not available for 5 months, you're going to get your hiring offer pulled and you're out of luck.

Just put your true date.