KODI,
wow that was a short wait for the interview invite... I was under the impression that the wait period between app and invite was a year or so. but then again, you obviously are very qualified.

 

Hi!

From what I've heard, if you only know the ATP stuff, you will fail the interview.

Go to pprune.org, and/or search here, go to flightinfo, etc. to learn what you need to know for the interview. It is an extensive list of stuff, including one or two books. They should ask you questions about Hong Kong, the company, etc., etc. We had a guy go who didn't learn all the recommended stuff, and he was asked multiple questions that he had no idea he was expected to know the material that the questions covered.

Good luck!

cliff
ATL

 

Hey KODI3,

Congrats on the invite, you have plenty of time to study. The one book that everyone has been expected to read is "Handling the Big Jets" by Davies. Many also study "Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators" but any good Aero. book would help for review, also a good meteorology book will help . Go to the Fragrant Harbour Wannabes on PPRuNe and search for the info. Send me a PM with your email address and I will send you some notes that also helped me study.

For company info use the CX website and Wikipedia. You will need to know that stuff as current as possible when you go. Know the names of the officers and company stuff etc., especially the record profit we announced last week. The company made almost a billion US dollars profit in 2007.

As for me, I interviewed in November and December of 2006 and started in July of 2007. Good luck and if you have any more question feel free to ask. A lot of your questions will be answered on PPRuNe so spend some time searching on there. Be careful if you wander into the other Fragrant Harbour forum, there are some angry guys posting in there. For what it is worth I am very happy here.

 

I just got the email invite from AMY as well for May 7.
I'm looking for the usual intel on what is this first interview all about.
Also Cathay QOL for a family guy like me.

Thanks

 

ryguy,
thanks for the insight. I have gone to those sights and downloaded/printed most of the gouge there. I also still have my meterology books from primary flight trng.
I am very excited about the opportunity to interview with them, but I am facing a dilemma with my AD retirement date. I retire 1 SEP with terminal LV commencing 1 June. I read on another thread here the second interview for someone else came 5 months later. I have a family with school-aged child, so I am a little concerned about length of time involved with the whole process. Also factored into the transiton anxiety is where to live. I realize the initial invite is for a "potential" offer to continue, and I need to concentrate on passing the initial, but I am going to have to coordinate with my command to possibly move my retirement date back to still have a check coming in while awaiting results.
Due to my junior standing here, I am unable to PM you. Are you able to PM me? Would love to get more info from someone in the know.

Thanks.

 

Just went to the Wikipedia site. One word, EXCELLENT! Previous company info I came across was dated, but this site is very current and even mentions the incident at Boeing field.

 

I can't PM you yet so just send an email to [email protected] . I set that up last year when I was getting a lot of questions through here. I still get emails with questions there so it is a bit easier to respond. Just a word to anyone that wants to email, I can't give blind recs to someone I don't know. Also, believe it or not, several of the people that have emailed claim that they have wanted to work for "Cathy" for a long time. Rule number one, get the name of the company right...one even asked about Cathy Specific

 

ANC should be a piece of cake and if successful you might jump the list and start earlier than other people that do not want ANC.

FO

 

Things to consider - look at the situation in Tibet. Be sure you are deal with that kind of dictatorial, heavy-handed aggression from your employer. IFALPA used to be mostly ineffective as the chinese govt doesn't recognize labor unions, not sure if any progress has been made since I was doing research on CX a few years ago.

Sorry I don't have any current info on CX, just looking out for your best interestes in other aspects of working for the Chinese.

 

Cathay is in China but you do not work for Chinese, you work for Swire Group which is an old school stuffy British organization. I think I would prefer the Chinese.