Glad that preferential ALPA hiring is paying off.

 

yes. . . . . . .

 

I know of two one furloughed one lynx and why the dislike for 135 guys?

 

How about why the dislike for hard working CFIs?!

 

Bummer man. Sorry to hear that.....

 

I was just curious. I just know they turned away a lot of 121 guys. I got nothing against CFIs or 135 guys.

 

I too just got a rejection email today. Interviewed Jan. 26th. I'm really bummed out. Have no idea why. It's weird because one of the recruiters called me this morning and verified that he'd gotten all my paperwork I had faxed over earlier this morning. Then he said the FOIA paper was taking up to 3 weeks to get back from the FAA, so it could possibly be that long before my stuff goes to the board, but hopefully not that long. So I'm thinking another week or two. Well at 3:30 I get the rejection email. I called him back asking if this was correct. He said yes, my packet had been sent to the board anyway.

I really don't get it. I have prior 121, and was a former intern at AA/AE with several letters of rec. from various AMR employees. My interview went well. The only thing I can think of was I busted a checkride at my former airline once and maybe they didn't like that.

Really sucks because I'm native to Dallas and would've liked to work for my hometown airline.

 

Without knowing the particulars of each case, it is hard to know why some were hired and some were not, but I do know some generalities.

1. Unless they are very desperate for pilots, employers don't like hiring furloughees because they don't want to spend money training someone just to see them disappear six months later. It takes about a year to recoup training costs at Eagle and probably the same at other airlines.

2. Unless the airline has their head up their ass (so do, but I doubt Eagle is one of them) every pilot who shows up for an interview is qualified for the job. Interviews usually do two things; they verify that the pilot accurately told their qualifications on their application and they want to see if the applicant would make a good employee. From a pilot perspective, the person is evaluated as someone they'd want to spend four days in a cockpit and from a manager perspective, they want to see if the person has a good attitude as an employee.

The tough thing about interviews is it's a one shot deal. If you or any of the interviewers is having a bad day, has a slight personality conflict/misunderstanding, that could be enough for them to reject the applicant. My brother is in the financial management business when he's interviewed for jobs it takes 3-5 visits before he finds out if he got the job or not. With us, it's one visit.

Sometimes there is a personality difference between the applicant and the company. It doesn't mean that the applicant is a bad person or wrong, just that their personality isn't as good a fit with company culture as another applicant's personality.

 

Their minimums are 1000 and 100. Has anyone been hired with time that low? It seems like a lot of the new hires posting here are 1500+ TT and 200-500 Multi.

 

Wow well said. Beagle, I'm not trying to start a forum war with you, but really? Chicken? I'd bet a few thousand PIC in your logbook would have opened doors for you on Airline Apps over the past 5 years. Delta, Southwest, JetBlue, CAL etc. have hired thousands of pilots, so yes, you have had the chance. Chicken? hypocrite.