jetBlue Hiring
01-30-2015 | 04:13 AM
#3431
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01-30-2015 | 06:06 AM
#3432
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From: A320 CA
okay, the 1/27/15 interview session has been rescheduled for 2/10/15. I have the 8:30am slot. I will of course post details. i'm very excited about this opportunity. hopefully no blizzard (or potential blizzard) will mess me up this time! good luck to everyone who will be there that day. I look forward to meeting everyone.
just to review, i'm a regional captain, about 7200tt, 4100t-pic, flew 600+ hours in the past year, no internal recs and I don't even know any jetblue pilots, other than an asst chief pilot I had in my jumpseat a few months ago (who I obviously did not put down as a reference or anything). I don't know what caused them to call me, but i'm glad they did! I really don't want to go anywhere else. i'm 45 and I've got 20 years of a career left and i'd really like to spend it at jetblue.
just to review, i'm a regional captain, about 7200tt, 4100t-pic, flew 600+ hours in the past year, no internal recs and I don't even know any jetblue pilots, other than an asst chief pilot I had in my jumpseat a few months ago (who I obviously did not put down as a reference or anything). I don't know what caused them to call me, but i'm glad they did! I really don't want to go anywhere else. i'm 45 and I've got 20 years of a career left and i'd really like to spend it at jetblue.
We are as pilots separated by three degrees...
If you can't what I did is... I used internal letters from my old job. I used my internal Check Airmen LOR, one of my FOs wrote me a LOR and a letter from DO at the time. I think you can have three still? Show the person going through your file who has never met you the many sides to your personality...my 2cents.
Interview is a lot of fun meeting everyone just relax and be yourself.
01-30-2015 | 06:18 AM
#3433
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I didn't say it was a good idea. The way it was explained to me, Delta wants pilots who are flexible, and who will fly the way Delta tells them to. They believe that very experienced captains are less likely to conform. They probably have some metric that indicates that, since they have an entire team that tracks ALL metrics of the new hires.
01-30-2015 | 06:34 AM
#3434
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In 2013 my class had at least 2 guys with 10k+. Proabably more than that actually but those two I'm 100% positive about. Probably closer to 20k as they were regional guys in their 50's who I'm sure worked a lot.
01-30-2015 | 08:44 AM
#3436
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I didn't say it was a good idea. The way it was explained to me, Delta wants pilots who are flexible, and who will fly the way Delta tells them to. They believe that very experienced captains are less likely to conform. They probably have some metric that indicates that, since they have an entire team that tracks ALL metrics of the new hires.
01-30-2015 | 09:05 AM
#3437
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How can a 10,000 hr pilot conform to learning a whole new callout system like that!
01-30-2015 | 09:42 AM
#3438
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From: 190 FO
I'll take a WAG and say its way more than saying the right word. It's bad habits and bad attitudes. Ofcourse it's not posted on the website "10,000 hour pilots need not apply" but it has been told me by various people in training departments at different airlines.
Some guys I flew with at my previous airline..... Id love to be a fly on the wall if they ever had to be FO's again.
Some guys I flew with at my previous airline..... Id love to be a fly on the wall if they ever had to be FO's again.
01-30-2015 | 10:33 AM
#3439
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I'll take a WAG and say its way more than saying the right word. It's bad habits and bad attitudes. Ofcourse it's not posted on the website "10,000 hour pilots need not apply" but it has been told me by various people in training departments at different airlines. Some guys I flew with at my previous airline..... Id love to be a fly on the wall if they ever had to be FO's again.
All joking aside I'm quite curious as I do exceed some of these numbers and having just turned 41 I actually was one day looking to settle down at a major. So these "people" told you what exactly? And this comes from them.....having a high rate of 6000 turbine pic pilots with bad habits and attitudes?
01-30-2015 | 10:41 AM
#3440
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From: ERJ, CA
So first they want you to chuck down a lot of money to get your ratings. Then they want that coveted 4 year degree. Then they want that turbine PIC time. And in the end if you went out there and got 6000 plus turbine PIC hours maybe they will look at you more closely too? Wow, sounds like a hell of a deal to me......
All joking aside I'm quite curious as I do exceed some of these numbers and having just turned 41 I actually was one day looking to settle down at a major. So these "people" told you what exactly? And this comes from them.....having a high rate of 6000 turbine pic pilots with bad habits and attitudes?
All joking aside I'm quite curious as I do exceed some of these numbers and having just turned 41 I actually was one day looking to settle down at a major. So these "people" told you what exactly? And this comes from them.....having a high rate of 6000 turbine pic pilots with bad habits and attitudes?
Don't forget they want you to "volunteer" to build huts in Honduras or Igloos in Alaska. You know, because you have to be worthy, like airline mgmts.
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