I guess I should have approached my response a little better.. the OP who was not thrilled about handing over 1000 is who I was trying to get a point across.

I do understand your point, but I think you’re talking too, or your friends are the wrong friends. It’s not that rampant in the airlines, or at least my current airline. Maybe at the regionals? Not sure. My point was strictly career/financial focused. If youre looking for a financially successful progression with probably a good QOL that can easily be done at the airlines, it’s an investment. At this point you can get one a regional with a flow through and be sitting at a major, working a lot less and making a lot more, even if you do commute. If you love PSI and are having a blast doing it, no reason to not stay, or if this seems like the dream job for right now 1,000 dollars is not that much.. go for it. Don’t even think about it. But my reading of the OP was he wasn’t happy about it, and wasn’t happy about moving on top of that.... that is a recipe for disaster and you’re going into a job with a bad outlook and you haven’t even had the interview. Having worked here before, good company great people but if you’re worried about 1k, well this one might not be the job.

And in all reality most people are intrigued about pilots past because they want to know what it was like, not to shame someone or make them think they have made the wrong choice. No one cares if you fly a kit built plane or and a380, and if they do they are jealous.

 

Bit of a subject change, but after successfully applying, I got an email stating that all available interview slots are full. They say they'll contact me when one is available. I wonder, how long could that take?


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They were booked 2 months solid a few months ago.
Remember: If you interview tomorrow, you'll probably get a Feb or March class date... So guessing they are now interviewing for classes starting sometime next summer.

 

A guy I met on the road this week, interviewed week before last somewhere down south and was offered an April class date. I imagine they will run classes throughout the spring, summer, and fall as they did this year.

 

I interviewed last week for a FO position and yesterday received a TBNT email. I thought I did really well and was prepared for everything as there were no surprises and everyone was very pleasant.

Did I hear there was now (or soon to be) a hiring freeze for FO's?

 

Sorry to hear that Bahamas that does stink.

I'm actually curious, how many pilots were hired on their recent tour? I understand they do a dozen or so pilots per class, and they've got 6 or 7 classes lined up. That's a lot of FOs.

 

Yea, it really is unfortunate, but I have no choice but to keep chomping at the bit.

I wish I knew exactly why I got the TBNT, so I could improve upon anything in my interviewing skills that might have been lacking.

I'm hoping to soon land an interview at Tradewinds (very close to where I live) as I submitted my resume to them yesterday.

800TT, no CFI, soon going to add my CMEL

 

Sorry to hear that. Good news: the regionals are hiring BIG TIME once you hit 1500 hours.

If you want to stay in the Florida area and fly to the Bahamas, Silver Airlines will be adding 20 new ATR-42 600s to replace the older Saabs starting in a few months...

 

Sorry you didn’t get the position. There is probably another great job around the corner for you. It’s a good hiring environment.

There isn’t a hiring freeze per se. We get a lot of applicants, we will run 8 classes of 12 next year (planned), we also hire direct entry captains, so that is less than 96 slots available. They may stop interviewing at some point, but we will always need FOs. It will pick up again.


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I was recently hired by planesense as an fo

Interviewed in late October and given a March 5th class date

Just to give others an idea of how far out they run things. They mentioned having classes in January February, March, and April

Can't wait to get started
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