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Old 01-21-2017, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by John Carr View Post
If he was Mil-fighters, he may have simply had a currency issue or his app just wasn't pinging at separation and got a little 121 stank on him and it triggered.

Other guys aren't even finishing training or are barely off IOE at regional in a same/similar situation.
Don't you need to at least start flying to say you have some 121 experience?
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Old 01-21-2017, 04:12 PM
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Its a big LCC...and I do think it was adding the 121 time that finally did it.
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Old 01-21-2017, 04:22 PM
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Congratulations. Guess you solved your SW vs AA debate?
Yes...yes I did. AA won the day with number of retirements over 10 years and variety of flying.
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Old 01-22-2017, 08:49 AM
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All you College Boys on here look up the name Pete Fernandez and see what a lowly high school graduate can accomplish.
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Old 01-22-2017, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Icaruss View Post
Don't you need to at least start flying to say you have some 121 experience?
For a currency issue, I'd imagine so.

If his app simply was triggering the software's point drivers or DAL's human scoring eyeballs and all it took was simply being employed? Possibly, who knows.
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Old 01-22-2017, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by David Puddy View Post
Envoy was recently advertising a conversion program for military rotary pilots. I would google it if I were you. Your King Air time would make it easier. Envoy or Endeavor would be my choices due to the flow opportunities to American and Delta.

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There is NO flow from Endeavor to Delta.
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Old 01-23-2017, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Big E 757 View Post
Wow, you got hired by an LCC, and got hired by AA after only 144 hours with the LCC. Well done and congrats.
Yup, that's great! To the mil guys out there that are waiting on a call, don't discount going to a regional or LCC to help your resume. I went to a regional, learned a lot, had fun and met some great people. Then I was hired at 2 Legacies in 2014, with only 108 hours at the regional. My total time was ~1,800, 850 of that in fighters. I was not a mil IP and I firmly believe that the only reason I was called so early was because of checking the 121 container, along with being mil. My sub 3.0 GPA in aviation surely wasn't the reason.

A squadron mate was hired at FedEx and UPS and got a call from DAL with pretty much the same numbers/quals as mine. He had a few more 121 hours than I did, but other than that he was around 2,000 TT and was not a mil IP either. Another anecdotal story, there was a guy in my DAL class. He had been out of the cockpit for the last 3 years on AD. He was called within a month of finishing training at his regional.

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All you College Boys on here look up the name Pete Fernandez and see what a lowly high school graduate can accomplish.
While that's a cool piece of history, what does that have to do with todays airline hiring environment? They have to sift through 10,000+ applications, this is an easy filter because a great majority of the applicants have a degree. Keep shaking your first at the requirement.
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Originally Posted by crewdawg View Post
Yup, that's great! To the mil guys out there that are waiting on a call, don't discount going to a regional or LCC to help your resume. I went to a regional, learned a lot, had fun and met some great people. Then I was hired at 2 Legacies in 2014, with only 108 hours at the regional. My total time was ~1,800, 850 of that in fighters. I was not a mil IP and I firmly believe that the only reason I was called so early was because of checking the 121 container, along with being mil. My sub 3.0 GPA in aviation surely wasn't the reason.

A squadron mate was hired at FedEx and UPS and got a call from DAL with pretty much the same numbers/quals as mine. He had a few more 121 hours than I did, but other than that he was around 2,000 TT and was not a mil IP either. Another anecdotal story, there was a guy in my DAL class. He had been out of the cockpit for the last 3 years on AD. He was called within a month of finishing training at his regional.



While that's a cool piece of history, what does that have to do with todays airline hiring environment? They have to sift through 10,000+ applications, this is an easy filter because a great majority of the applicants have a degree. Keep shaking your first at the requirement.
Just curious which legacies were u hired at?
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Old 01-23-2017, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by TurbineDriver View Post
Just curious which legacies were u hired at?
AAL and DAL.
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Old 01-24-2017, 04:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Ronjo View Post
All you College Boys on here look up the name Pete Fernandez and see what a lowly high school graduate can accomplish.
Good story, but his story isn't doing anything for your career earnings.

I may be wrong, but I don't think it takes a degree to realize that waiting to get your degree, or waiting until the requirements change, is a money losing proposition. While you wait them out, how many years are you no longer able to earn $300k+?

A degree may cost $100k, but not having one could cost at least $1M+ in earnings. Don't be mad at your money.
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