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10-31-2013 | 06:36 PM

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Vikz09

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Originally Posted by gloopy

There was a time when UAL was madly in lust with interns. As in automatically hired at bare minimum quals, which back then were around 300 hours TT. Shuffle office papers for 3 months in the summer in school and jump ahead of 10+ years of competitive quals. There was at least one who got to land an actual 777 (ferry/mx/etc flight) with a wet commercial and no training just as an office perk.

I got the chance to pickup a brand new 777 from Boeing as a intern at United in the summer of 97. Went with the 777 chief pilot who believe it or not was 39 years old. Talk about being hired at the right time. He was hired at 21-22 years old. United guaranteed their interns 2 interviews if needed! In or around 1996 they wanted the interns to hold off applying until they had at least 1500 hours as they realized the chances of sticking them sideways on a panel for 2 years was diminishing with the pending retirements of 727 and 747 classic. Great experience being 22 and hoping in a 747 sim and shooting approachs to the old hong kong airport. Then Jump seating with 39 year old fleet captain to pickup a brand new 777

10-31-2013 | 06:54 PM

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John Carr

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Originally Posted by gloopy

You might be right about the interview vs the job now versus then. But "back in the day" being intern was absolutely worshipped by UAL to the point of jumping the entire profession to get an almost automatic interview that was an almost automatic job offer. IMO that's not good for anyone when 500 hour pilots can walk into a competitive job where everyone else needs 5000+ or mil equivalent...it just cheapens it for everyone. I hope those days are gone and don't ever come back. Unfortunately one negative of the "pilot shortage" are some of the upcoming bridge programs that could end up putting some shockingly low qualified pilots into seats at all levels of the profession.

I agree with your post. But keep in mind, "back in the day", interning at UAL was super competitive. TK usually only had maybe 6-8 per semester from ALL the schools UAL had the agreement with. Fast forward to the late 90's-2000 and it jumped to 40-50 at TK alone per semester. Never mind all the ones that were spread out in the various domiciles system wide.

Also keep in mind, there were interns, just like sons and daughters, just like inter company transfers, etc that got turned down. The advice was "yeah, you've got a guaranteed interview, but don't go in there and blow it". Which is EXACTLY what some did.

11-01-2013 | 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by fullflank

Wow. How did you pull that off? Just curious because it seems like having inside contacts isn't what it once was.

That's pretty green. 2400 tt. Was it heavy? Or Airforce one?

11-01-2013 | 07:18 AM

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Is anyone getting hired with little or no 121 time? I have about 9 months of Rsv at a 121 airline. Not many hours flying at the 121 airline, but I have 121 "Experience". I'm trying to figure out if I should take a job getting Multi Turbine PIC or go to a regional for some more 121 time. I see a lot of guys getting hired, not sure if everyones getting on with a lot of 121 time?

4,000 TT
1,000 Turbine PIC (PC12)
Plenty of multi.

Not sure if this is the correct thread, but it's about hiring.

11-01-2013 | 05:22 PM

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Senior Skipper

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Originally Posted by Bzzt

I'd be positive as all hell also if I had a magic bullet recommendation that could get me hired severely under qualified relative to the other applicants and at the beginning of a hiring wave.

What exactly makes CRJ Driver under qualified? The fact that he has less TT or TPIC than you do?

11-01-2013 | 09:38 PM

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UAL Oct 13.

3100 TT
2750 PIC
Military IP, SEFE, base Chief of Safety
2x Masters
5x recs from FOs

11-02-2013 | 06:31 AM

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There will always be haters everywhere. Congrats crj driver! Hopefully I can replicate your luck one day!

And congrats to everyone else who's been hired!

11-02-2013 | 09:36 AM

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Wondering if anyone who got the call from DAL or UAL also got a call from SWA for an interview.

11-02-2013 | 10:30 AM

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Interviewed at UAL with a guy who claimed to have SWA & Spirit interviews lined up. He was a former Evergreen 74 captain & retired USAF tanker pilot.

Have a friend who's received interview invites from SWA & American. He's got lots of PIC time, multi time, & a 737 type.