Not to beat a dead horse, but I need some GoJet info
07-09-2007, 06:41 AM
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Not to beat a dead horse, but I need some GoJet info
I just got the call for a first round interview at GoJet and wanted some more information. I am a very low time pilot, but could avoid becoming a CFI and all of the $$ involved in that if I get a position at a regional. I just would like some none emotional fact based information on the company. Thank you for your time.
07-09-2007, 06:42 AM
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Uhoh... I don't know anything other than you do NOT want to work there! There is a lot of animosity in the business toward GoJets because they are a TSA alter-ego airline. Many regard GoJets as a scab airline. Just some friendly advice, please decide carefully... GoJets could harm your career.
07-09-2007, 06:57 AM
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I'll do my very best to be as non-emotional as possible...
Buncha job-stealing, back-stabbing, quasi-scab m-fers. If you go there, you're pretty much throwing your career away. Go to any one of the other approximately 300 regionals that are hiring low-timers. Or instruct. Actually, just go instruct. Don't be an SJS toolbag.
Buncha job-stealing, back-stabbing, quasi-scab m-fers. If you go there, you're pretty much throwing your career away. Go to any one of the other approximately 300 regionals that are hiring low-timers. Or instruct. Actually, just go instruct. Don't be an SJS toolbag.
07-09-2007, 06:57 AM
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Just curious, how many hours do you have, for them to call you for the interview?
(I'm wondering how low they have brought thier mins down to, like the rest of the airlines, but they just don't get discussed much in here like all the others do for being low time)
(I'm wondering how low they have brought thier mins down to, like the rest of the airlines, but they just don't get discussed much in here like all the others do for being low time)
07-09-2007, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Lbell911
Just curious, how many hours do you have, for them to call you for the interview?
(I'm wondering how low they have brought thier mins down to, like the rest of the airlines, but they just don't get discussed much in here like all the others do for being low time)
(I'm wondering how low they have brought thier mins down to, like the rest of the airlines, but they just don't get discussed much in here like all the others do for being low time)
07-09-2007, 07:00 AM
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There are other places hiring low time pilots. I would avoid GoJets at all costs because as long as it is on your resume, it will haunt you. While you may want to avoid emotional responses here, they will follow you forever. When you want to move on, you never know who will be on the pilot interviewing committee and immediately blacklist you. It's not worth that when you could hold out for PSA or someplace.
If despite all the responses you are bound to get in this post you decide to go there, you should plan to live in base. Commuting will be hell because more often then not you'll either get denied the jumpseat or will be 'educated' while you are in the jumpseat.
If despite all the responses you are bound to get in this post you decide to go there, you should plan to live in base. Commuting will be hell because more often then not you'll either get denied the jumpseat or will be 'educated' while you are in the jumpseat.
07-09-2007, 07:05 AM
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Originally Posted by rytheflyguy
There are other places hiring low time pilots. I would avoid GoJets at all costs because as long as it is on your resume, it will haunt you. While you may want to avoid emotional responses here, they will follow you forever. When you want to move on, you never know who will be on the pilot interviewing committee and immediately blacklist you. It's not worth that when you could hold out for PSA or someplace.
If despite all the responses you are bound to get in this post you decide to go there, you should plan to live in base. Commuting will be hell because more often then not you'll either get denied the jumpseat or will be 'educated' while you are in the jumpseat.
If despite all the responses you are bound to get in this post you decide to go there, you should plan to live in base. Commuting will be hell because more often then not you'll either get denied the jumpseat or will be 'educated' while you are in the jumpseat.
07-09-2007, 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by On Autopilot
PIEDMONT AND PSA ARE HIRING LOW TIMERS. GIVE THEM A TRY.
This is the best advice you will ever get: Hold out for a better airline!!!!
07-09-2007, 07:38 AM
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Despite what I (and others) would like to believe, GoJet on your resume *will not* permanently harm your career; just ask the GoJet alums at UPS, Delta, Continental, etc.
Having said that, there are a dozen other places you could likely get hired that won't cause your professional colleagues to hate your guts because you fly for an alter-ego airline flying without a contract that was used to severely weaken the negotiating power of an established ALPA carrier.
Rest assured...damn near every other small jet pilot will despise you for working at Hulas' bastard stepchild, and getting a jumpseat on another regional airline will likely be difficult if you commute. If that doesn't faze you...well then by all means, good luck...
Having said that, there are a dozen other places you could likely get hired that won't cause your professional colleagues to hate your guts because you fly for an alter-ego airline flying without a contract that was used to severely weaken the negotiating power of an established ALPA carrier.
Rest assured...damn near every other small jet pilot will despise you for working at Hulas' bastard stepchild, and getting a jumpseat on another regional airline will likely be difficult if you commute. If that doesn't faze you...well then by all means, good luck...
07-09-2007, 07:40 AM
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The fact that you have to ask for "non-emotional" replies shows you already know its a bad decision to go there. Just don't do it. Don't take the easy road just because it's easy. Sometimes in life the better things are worth working for.
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