Short Final

You think that's a bad impression, wait ' til you have to deal with the gate agents!

chazbird

If anyone is interested the "blank page" that appears when you submit your USAIRWAYS pilot application occurs because the applicant (me) hasn't registered. The USAIRWAYS web-page desk was quite prompt in informing me about this. Of course that's appreciated but it would be a lot easier for everyone if they put that notice on the first page of the careers page, not embedded inside the "other careers" link. Their help desk didn't mention where the registration section is.

Jettubby

I don't know who's maintaining the app site or who the IT staff is but I'd bet it's in Phoenix.

I've seen much better online apps but I've seen much worse as well. Do the best you can. Life sure ain't perfect. Especially in this business.

swaayze

Hey Jettubby,

From your posts it seems you're doing ok back at U, yes? I hope so.

I just couldn't do it at the time. Seems recent events here at Eagle will likely prove it to be yet another boneheaded career move on my part. Oh well.

Best of luck to you over there!

chazbird

Well, in my experience the USAIRWAYS career web site now wins hands down as the worst on-line process I've gone through. And I'm not done with it yet.

1. Click on "pilot careers" - go through filling that out for an hour and find it won't submit. Try again. Same thing. 2 Contact USAIRWAYS via email: They say you must register first. Oh. Thanks for making that clear when you start. You register on the page "other careers". After you register then you upload resume, cover letter, education background, employment history then select career interest; "pilot" click apply and it sends you back not to the pilot additional information section (flight times, etc, which I did earlier) but to the start of the apply to the pilot section again. Whatever. So I exit the whole thing, figure I may have (or may not have applied) and click on pilot careers and start filling that out again - this time it passes by the employment and education history (could that be because I entered that earlier) - get to the end and try to submit and it sends me to the apply to the pilot page, which I've already applied to, I think. Then I do the apparently fatal decision to back arrow and re-submit and get the blank page. Call USAIRWAYS - lots of voice mail, getting sidetracked, now I'm supposed to call customer service MO-FRI during business hours and ask for recruitment. That ought to be fun. Time invested so far 3.8 hours. I could have done this in a hour and half with paper and pen and a 41 cent stamp. But oh, its for the ease of their use. Right. How many times do I waste their time finding out what's wrong? And its not for their use if they aren't getting the applicants they want through their web-site. By the way its a Larry Ellison/Oracle POS software. No wonder he rides around in a GV and USAIRWAYS is....well.....

Jettubby

D'oh. See below.

Jettubby

Hey buddy. Sorry to hear you had to give up the #. That is BS in my opinion. Hey at least you're home. I don't know what's going to happen here. Heck this business is all just a roll of the dice. I was at Airtran when they started and everyone was trying to get out like the plague. Turns out I'd be in the top 20 if I stayed. Who'd a thunk? Came to USAir when it was one of the best paying companies around. Now look. Maybe one of these days I'll land on the right number on that roulette wheel. ;-) Keep in touch. I was an Eagle Puke once. Definitely not the worst place.

ZapBrannigan

Don't feel bad. in 98' and 99' AirTran was a dirtbag operation. (They furloughed me in Oct 98'). Mishmash of Eastern/Valujet manuals...British Midland and Turkish Air DC9s...some without HSI's. The only reason I went there was cause' I couldn't get hired elsewhere.

Got hired by US in Jan 99. Recalled by AAIR in Jan 99. Thought it was a no-brainer! Turned out to be a dumb decision. Who woulda' thunk it?