tye05

Mugsy, Check your private messages. Cheers T5

CriticalMach

Dumb question of the day::

Where do I apply?

sulkair

Go to:

Frontier Airlines | Pilot Hiring

At the bottom it gives an email address to send your cover letter and resume.

Good luck!

CriticalMach

Thank you sir. How's the application pile look like?

Barley

It's filled with applicants that can put a functional sentence together and locate the career section on the website without help.

JerkStore

Low blow. I thought we were all supposed to be friends?

But.....he is a Ravens fan so........

Juuuuust kidding!!

phoenix 23684

I just interviewed with Frontier on Monday Feb 10th, pretty close to what people have been posting

Must of us showed up at 0745 for our 0800 show. The hardest part was figuring out where to park as all the Frontier parking lots had signs that they would tow vehicles without a permit. Ended up parking to the West of the Stay Bridge hotel. The entrance for the interview is on the south side of the building.

Once inside we were escorted by Brittany and Tyler (H.R. intern) to the auditorium where we were given a quick overview of the company by Brittany, followed by Scott (line pilot) who stepped in for the chief pilot to give a presentation about benefits, aircraft, etc. Afterwards we were escorted to the break room area where we remained the rest of the day waiting for our turn to do the panel and SBI.

I started with the panel interview. There were 3 pilots and Brittany. One person collected your logbook, the other your originals, the third your copies and Brittany collected my Frontier paperwork. I had updated resumes and I handed each a copy, gave a 30s history of me and how I got there and it was followed by each taking turns asking a technical, TMAAT, or HR.

The technical questions that I can remember were Jet-A weight, when can you switch to ground after landing, how fast do you need to descend if your 50 mile at 39000 feet to cross a VOR at 18000, I missed that one. What was my worst job, the worst captain I worked for, any failures, violations, and finally why Frontier. They do make an effort to ease your nervousness, very friendly panel, I didn't feel they were trying to trick me with questions or anything negative.

I was escorted back to the break room and waited for lunch as my SBI was afterwards. There is always a volunteer pilot in the break are hanging out answering any question that you may have.

Lunch was Einstein wraps, tea, cookies. It was a good opportunity to talk to the line pilots, other pilots going through initial, and other employees about the company.

The SBI seemed to be different for each person, but basically you're at altitude have some weather and something happens in the back, starts with an altercation between a pax and flight attendant and it goes downhill from there. My case the pax either opened a door or blew a hole, as the narrator simply yelled "BOOM", 7 min will seem like 2 after that point. I did the best that I could and I'm sure I didn't do as well. They don't tell you how you did, just gave you a few min to self critique and ask any questions to them about the company, etc.

Once we were all done the hiring crew to include the line pilots left to discuss who moves forward. We were told it would take 20 min but ended up taking about 45 min. They came back and called out five names, we were 14 total, and left with those individuals, we didn't know if we did or didn't make the cut at that point. After a few minutes they came back and told us that we got selected for round 2. Hard to tell what criteria they used as the people that got cut seem just as professional and very experienced.

The last portion was to meet the chief pilot. While we waited someone asked when will we know if we get selected and one of the line pilots said within two weeks. Once you left the break room you did not come back. I meet the chief pilot, very pleasant, and basically he just wanted to know if you would be someone he would like to be on a 3-4 day trip. What sort of stuff would you do, etc.

Once that portion was done, the line pilot who escorted you there went into the office to chat with the chief pilot and from there I supposed it is when they decide if they like you as you either get escorted to the exit or to another room to be given the offer and to do drug, and paperwork.

My interview group will start on Mar 3. Overall very friendly group of people and even though you are there almost 10 hours they made an effort to make you feel welcomed and relax.

Good luck to anyone who goes for an interview.

Spoilers

Good write up phoenix-23684 and congrats! Would you mind sharing when you first applied? Any internal recs and qualifications?

b2mugsy

Hired part of Tuesday's interview group. 7 of 12 hired.

My qualifications were:
Retired Mil IP/EP B-1/B-2/T-38
4000TT
2900 Turbine
1900 Turbine PIC

No internal recs. Applied back in December. Good luck to all. Interview process was same as Monday's. Great group of professionals at Frontier.

Good luck to all,

mugsy

sulkair

After meeting dozens of Frontier pilots, several phenomenal members of the HR staff, upgrades in GS, newhires, a cool intern, an instructor, a crew scheduler or two and many other employees working at F9 headquarters, I cannot think of a more prestigious title by which I could be called in this entire industry than a FRONTIER pilot!

These guys and gals were the best I've EVER seen. Professional - personable - fun - warm - interesting - kind - transparent - honest - helpful - genuine - and simply down to earth! I could fill this page with adjectives like these! There is no question they are ardently loyal to one another, and their airline.

People with no connection to the hiring process went out of their way to not only welcome us, or say hello, but to stop and spend an hour or more talking to us about everything and anything. Nothing was off the table, and they were extremely candid. ...Impressive and refreshing!

I totally expected a healthy serving of Kool-aid, and I wouldn't have necessarily held that against them. Listen to me very carefully! It didn't happen, period. And I was looking for it hard! Do you think I'm just kissing some butt right now with my words? Thinking someone is reading this? Are you kidding? - I already got the job! If I'm kissing anyone's butt right now, it's my very own for picking the next best risk vs reward combination in the USA! And by the way those are my words, not theirs, they would never have uttered such presumptuous words - but I will.

I'm not an experienced interviewer by any means but 4 years ago I was invited to a day-long open house out in FL for a particular airline. It was like a shallow date with lots of blue juice on her face - I mean makeup. There was nothing shallow about Frontier's people or their process. Definitely the one you wanna take home to mama!

The process by the way is masterfully put together. If you get the opportunity to go through it. Be ready to enjoy yourself fully. Totally worth the month of preparation I put myself through. This day was something I was obviously excited about, but in all honesty I was kind of dreading it. Something to just get through, hoops with which to jump. But within minutes of arriving it turned into an entirely different animal - a unique, and fun experience that in retrospect ranks among one the coolest experiences I've had. I concede, I may be biased on this one point because it ended well Nevertheless - I'm convinced there's nothing like it out there. It is multifaceted & layered, yet strait forward without tricks, and I deduce, it is designed entirely to get to know the real you.

So let me close by saying this... I've got an exceedingly good feeling about this place. And I'm pretty sure every human being from Lakes to Delta would agree that these folks deserve all the blue sky they can find ahead of them. I'm humbled that I've been asked to help them get there. I didn't exactly have a stellar performance - but I did let my guard down and tried hard not to hide who I am. It seems to have worked. Tonight, I live on top of the world!

-Sulkair