FL2204

Anyone out there has been submitting application to Piedmont but did not get any response back???
I have been trying since Late last year, left message, saw them at a job fair.....they told me they'll call me back.....but nothing.

BeatNavy

If I was trying to get a phone call from a regional for a year in this environment, I would have gone elsewhere by now. Just think, if you started at say Mesa late last year, you would have several hundred 121 jet hours and would probably get a call back from every regional. Is there something wrong with your availability date making them think you aren't available now? Do you have a criminal record?

kls81

Did you try contacting one of the recruiters on Piedmont's website?

I did that and I had an interview date setup that day.

FL2204

Thanks for the Feedback. but Nope clean record. Nothing to hide whatsoever. A friend of mine who is at mesa gave me the phone number of a recruiter a mesa. I tried that too. Left few messages. No response.
The only response I got was from Republic. Telling me they have more qualified candidates.
Envoy called me as well. To tell me they are reviewing my application and they'll get back to me within 2 days....it has been few months already.

billyho

Maybe it's a sign to stay out of this gawd awful career.

Five93H

What are your hours? Find it hard to believe any regional would turn down someone for not being 'qualified'. Some are giving CJOs to guys a few months short of ATP mins! GoJet gave someone I know an offer and they didn't even have their Multi.

superuomo32

http://piedmont-airlines.com/Careers/Career-Guides/Pilots
Go here and call one of the three people. If you are qualified I can't see why they wouldn't offer an interview. And wear a suit. I flew a guy home who got rejected the other day. Asked him why, because he was wearing slacks and a plaid shirt to the interview. 😯

FL2204

I have over 1500 h. I did talk to the Piedmont recruiter at a job fair..He said he'll call..
Call/email all 3 recruiters on Piedmont recruiters listed on their website....them left messages...nothing
ATP written: Check
FCC radio Licence: Check
1st medical: Check
May be Billy is right.....that's a sign

iFlyRC

Piedmont just hired one of our Captains. Are you a flight instructor? Despite this being a pilots job market, you still will want some turbine experience of some sort. In my experience, it is always the flight instructors who struggle the most, going from a C172 to an airliner is a huge jump, and having even a little bit of turbine time helps tremendously. Case in point, Piedmont is not contacting you, but they did hire one of our captains recently. So you are competing with people who are moving sideways in the industry with previous experience. At Mesa, I'd say 75% of the new F.O's I fly with came from another regional or had turbine experience. The flight instructors, most I have to watch like a hawk on landings. A few F.O's I have flown with weren't flight instructors, and had no turbine experience, but were very good stick and rudder types from doing odd stuff like chasing drones for government contract work.
Piedmont has probably the best flow agreement right now, so they are getting a lot of experienced applicants in the door probably. Mesa with 15 new E-jets coming, is most likely getting a lot of attention from other regional pilots as well. Now with SkyWest getting 17 or more E-jets for Delta, I'd imagine they are only looking at previous experience applicants as well.
Do you have currency? Have you not been flying while waiting for a phone call? Make no mistake about it, you can't be lazy and expect to get a job even in this market, get your butt in a King Air or Learjet doing air ambulance work, something other than a C172.

billyho

Yes, with the upgrade dropping below a year they may be more focused on poaching from other 121 carriers.