Originally Posted by Mash Potatoes

I told him that I love the culture. They tend to hire the crew members that I've enjoyed flying with the most. These are the type of captains that I hoped to be like someday. I told him that I thought I'd fit in well here. I also told him that I liked the Orlando base and commuting options out of JAX for BOS and JFK. He asked me if I could get 3 internal letters of rec for my interview. I got 5 before receiving my TBNT email.

Originally Posted by rvr1800

I hope you're right and I'm wrong. I really do. I know it's easier to come on these boards and complain. I really do love working here. It's the best job I've ever had and I don't take for granted the opportunity Jetblue gave me. This is a company I have no plans to ever leave and hope I retire from one day.

However, I cannot give the recruiting department the benefit of the doubt on this. so far three different people have gotten a thanks but no thanks from the phone interview. I'd never heard of one person in the past 3 years getting a TBNT from a phone interview. Now if someone is omitting something or saying they want to work at southwest obviously get rid of them. But as one of them has posted that's not the case. If professionalism is the desire of our recruiting department I expect the same from them. Stringing guys along for months in phase 2, with absolutely no communication, just to send a TBNT email or phone call is not professional. Giving guys a TBNT email from a phone interview that asks one question is not professional.

This was my fourth airline interview and I have been hired for a number of different jobs outside aviation and our process is by far the worst. I will say everyone I've personally met involved in the process have been great, HR side and pilot side. I just think the system is flawed.

Originally Posted by hyperboy

For the last two years the polices have gotten an update every month explaining everything to them. Access to a human being for any question they have, not sure where your getting your info. No other airline gives them the experience we do.Period.

Originally Posted by crash312

This is typical of airline mid management, but especially pervasive at JB. Justify your job by making it seem important. Anybody can call an applicant and confirm answers/numbers from an app. When you or your boss, however, gives the power of the rubber stamp approval, now you and your position are more important. In all likelihood the person stamping or not stamping "YES" to the phone interview is an entry level HR person with just enough power to wield it...and they will...to some one else's detriment. If they don't then they are just simply a data analyst, and not a talent acquisition expert. What sounds better on their next resume?

Originally Posted by Southerner

The commuting/base options is what killed your answer, I'm betting.

Originally Posted by hyperboy

No other airline gives them the experience we do.Period.

Originally Posted by aewanabe

Agree with this part of your quote. We have one of the most Byzantine hiring processes of any airline..... Maybe you're hired, maybe you're not.

To the guys getting unexpected TBNT notices after the phone screen, chin up. I have a few really good friends who have been chunked out of phase 2, all enjoying careers now at United, FedEx, and Delta respectively. And one who really wanted this place to be it, but interviewed, was hired, and started training at AA while he sat in "phase 2" limbo for 7 months. Everything seems to happen for a reason.

Originally Posted by Xtreme87

Plenty of commuters in the last few classes.

Originally Posted by Southerner

The commuting/base options is what killed your answer, I'm betting.