Airlineapps.com replacement
09-26-2013 | 07:54 AM
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Airlineapps.com replacement
Airlineapps.com is terrible. As an industry, it's embarrassing that we have to use a 15 year old, horribly designed website to apply for airline jobs. I'm considering creating a replacement.
Some of my questions are:
Who are the decision makers, at regionals especially, who choose to use airlineapps? And is its use so entrenched in the industry that a replacement would be a tough sell? Do the unions have anything to do with it?
If anybody knows a bit about the subject, I'd love to learn more.
No pilot should have to pay $50 to apply for a job. They even require a 'set up' fee for first time subscribers. Since when did anything on the internet require set up?
Some of my questions are:
Who are the decision makers, at regionals especially, who choose to use airlineapps? And is its use so entrenched in the industry that a replacement would be a tough sell? Do the unions have anything to do with it?
If anybody knows a bit about the subject, I'd love to learn more.
No pilot should have to pay $50 to apply for a job. They even require a 'set up' fee for first time subscribers. Since when did anything on the internet require set up?
09-26-2013 | 08:12 AM
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What is so horrible about it? I thought it was pretty easy. Fill out one app, then the addendums. Couldn't haver been easier. Airlineapps didn't charge me anything until after the first year, or until you wanted to apply to more than one airline.
Pilotcredentials on the other hand, you better have your log book cut up 100 ways from Sunday to fill that mess out. And you have to do it for every airline, that's the most infuriating part.
Pilotcredentials on the other hand, you better have your log book cut up 100 ways from Sunday to fill that mess out. And you have to do it for every airline, that's the most infuriating part.
09-26-2013 | 08:51 AM
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What is so horrible about it? I thought it was pretty easy. Fill out one app, then the addendums. Couldn't haver been easier. Airlineapps didn't charge me anything until after the first year, or until you wanted to apply to more than one airline.
Pilotcredentials on the other hand, you better have your log book cut up 100 ways from Sunday to fill that mess out. And you have to do it for every airline, that's the most infuriating part.
Pilotcredentials on the other hand, you better have your log book cut up 100 ways from Sunday to fill that mess out. And you have to do it for every airline, that's the most infuriating part.
If Airlineapps worked, these and other forums wouldn't be full of people asking questions about how to get it to work correctly. I think an improved site could provide a much better user experience as well as a way for pilots/employers to view flight experience that's closer to what some of the popular electronic logbooks offer. It also lacks a mobile site.
On Airlineapps it isn't even clear when an application has been submitted after an update. One recruiter I talked to mentioned having set something up to prevent Airlineapps 'spam', which I imagine is the result of pilots repeatedly updating and re-submitting their profiles. It's just a bad system.
Not to mention cost...
09-26-2013 | 02:04 PM
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Anyway, I'd like to create something, but want to make sure there aren't any big road blocks first. It looks like Pilotcredentials.com, which also looks a bit crusty, has a two year head start.
09-27-2013 | 04:32 PM
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That way we can save APC for complaining
09-27-2013 | 06:31 PM
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You're correct. We should be complaining about our companies, not unrelated websites. It's what pilots do. My small airline is losing one of its biggest complainers on Monday, and it's actually kind of sad. Cynicism is going to drop a notch.
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