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I applied online pasted my resume and did the Questionaire. Does anyone know how long I can expect to wait for a call? Also, what are the Junior bases and how long on reserve.

it depends on how much we are hiring currently. it should only be 2-4 weeks before you get a call to interview. we have sent some of our instructors back to the line to get rid of the backlog of pilots waiting for ioe, to hopefully turn a profit this quarter or next, and because we have a sufficient # of fo's currently. Right around now is when they were projected to start up hiring again. it is looking like the junior bases will be houston, lax. Newark, Cleveland are turning into the two top senior spots. Its a crapshoot and whats junior/senior now wont be then. You can almost guarantee Cleveland and Newark will be senior with the displacement of the flying going to houston and cleveland. Out of training you might even get your pick of spots... who knows. reserve has been anywhere from 1 month - 6 months depending on what you want to bid(ie if you really want weekends off stay reserve for awhile and get it). results may vary. good luck. try our own pilot forums for more info

expressjetpilots.com/thepipe

I had 2000hrs when I applied in February. I've still never heard from them. Even had someone walk in the resume. I've been told if you update it you go back to the bottom. Flying over 100hrs a month i was always updating. Now I work at RAH /Chautauqua. Fate wanted me here I guess and I think it turned out to be a better deal for me.

I applied in Feb. I don't know what was going on or who was reviewing the applications, but they messed up. I reapplied under a different e-mail and was invited for an interview a week later. You must have applied when I did Toilet Duck.

I applied last February, too, with about 2000 hours, including several hundred TPIC. After applying again, they finally dragged me in there in May to talk to me for about 15 minutes, tell me no, and send me home. Awesome.

Wow, did you bomb the interview, or what?

Apparently they thought so. Oh well. Their loss.

Might be the best thing for you in the long run. Who knows?

same story here. applied last march. RAH called me a few hours after I applied and offered an interview. I applied at express same time and didn't get the call for two months. day before I went to chq class. told them I had already accepted another position. 2000 TT 700 Multi, four year degree from big 12 university (non aviation) and 22 yrs old. don't know what their deal was but I have a TX base at chq so it worked out better in the long run.

Maybe they just want marginally qualified people so that their pilots feel completely beholden to the company. I've heard that rumor before.

I applied there at the beginning of this year after my SKW interview. I never heard a word.

yeah, thats it,.........................:rolleyes: thats like when parents tell their ugly fat daughter that the guys are "intimidated" by their beauty and thats why they don;t ever get asked out on a date.......... you being the fat ugly girl of course.


I had over 2,000hrs, 700 or so in a 121 T-Prop, a 4-yr degree, guess that makes me marginal :)

your making this too easy. you post about how you screwed up the easiest interview (besides mesa) and then you knock our pilot group. classic!!! either your dumber then a post or have the personality of a fart in a windstorm because if you got the "hell no" after only 10 min then you must have really made a horrible impression. thats almost an accomplishment. how did you do it? i am serious i really want to know. did you fake time in your logbook? They have one of those every now and then. Maybe your just really awkward in social situations?

you must be a real gem... where you working now? I am happy for you. Stay there!!!

there was a problem with the HR department for awhile. a lot of resumes were dumped when they went to a new system or something. Supposedly things have gotten a lot more streamlined and there is no longer a month wait for a response.

Our interview is a personality interview...Jim Ream was known for coming into new hire classes on the first day and saying, "Congratulations, you're not an A-hole." They know you can fly airplanes from your resume... The experience in my class ranged from 600 to 9,000 hours, a few of us had turbine time, I had Military Heavy time. Just from reading aviationinterviews.com, the majority of people flunk the interview for bad paperwork...that probably got Shark, unless he has a personality disorder.

Yeah, thats what I heard. I got the thumbs up from SKW a few days later so I didn't bother investigating my application at Xjet. Those were the only two places I applied and the only two I wanted to work for. Most of the people I cfi'd with went to Xjet.

Paperwork is a big issue. XJT doesn't grade on a point system. You either fit in or you don't. You might be better off somewhere else. Don't let it worry you too much.

I had 2500 + hours, 1300 ME turbine, and an ATP when I applied here, and it took months before they got back to me (after first sending me a thanks but no thanks email!). Once at the interview, I was surprised at just how easy it was. This was basic IFR rating material. I found it to be almost wholly a 'get to know you' session, and I spent more time shooting the bull with the folks than actually answering questions. In all honesty, I expected to get a 'no', and was quite surprised to get a job offer from them. I still have no idea why. Talking to other people that day, it seems each of us had a different experience. I say this to illustrate just how much of a crapshoot it is to get hired. Don't be down on yourself if you got the 'no'. It all seems so random, and at least you tried.

Well obviously I screwed something up. I'm not disputing that. I just don't know what it was. I can say that when I was going through security the morning of my interview, I tried to kick off my shoe and separated the sole, such that I probably looked like an idiot, but what can you do? It's kind of a funny story looking back on it.

But I'm not knocking your pilot group. I'm not saying they hire marginally qualified people, I was only suggesting it as a possibility because I had actually heard that from a few places before. I applied there because I thought it was a good company. I still think it's a good company. I've had nothing but good experiences with them, from jumpseating to my failed interview. Had I not been hired at SkyWest, I'd probably try ExpressJet again.

But thanks for all the flattering comments.

At the time, 1500TT, 500 121, former AH-64 and DHC-8 driver. Applied in February 2007. 10 days later received the interview invite, hired for class 2 weeks later.

I had originally applied in November 2005 and got the "thanks but no thanks" email right away (XJT doesn't count helo time, even if it is an AH-64).

Maybe it was luck of the draw, who knows. I did hear that there were problems with the computer system and applications, but I can't personally verify that.

Out of curiosity, Shark, who said that XJT only hired "marginally qualified people"? Yeah, I've met some 600 hour guys, but the average TT in my class was roughly 1700 with 300ME.

You know what, I give up. I thought I explained myself in the previous post.

Whatever.

Shark,

I'm sorry if you felt like I was chastising you through my question. That was not my intent. I only wanted to find out what people/organizations were putting out that misinformation. You specifically said that you "had actually heard that from a few places before". I was just curious as to who exactly was saying this stuff. I think you'll admit that you did not explain that.

At any rate, it's probably not important. The people who are really interested in their careers in this industry take the time to do the research and get all of the info, good and bad.

In my younger days I probably would have responded differently. Man, I must be getting old. :)

If there is one thing I've learned posting on this board for over a year and a half...you will always here some weird/horrible/messed up rumor about your company, their contract, their operation, etc. And everytime you hear it...it will come from someone that doesn't work there, has never worked there, and is basing their opinion on something they heard in a crew room, from a gate agent, or just made up themselves. This is why I don't listen to people who knock RAH but have never flown the line here. My best friend is an XJT FO and I don't repeat half the stuff he tells me (good or bad)...cuz I don't work there so it doesn't matter.

I applied in march of this year with 1300 TT and 1050 ME & 1000 turbine (all 135 time). I got an email in three weeks. Couldn't attend class within two weeks of any of the interview dates so they told me to re-apply when I could. I applied again in April with 100 more hours on my resume (Beech 1900 time) and got an email back in less than a week.

I got hired at SKW a week before my interview with XJT so I called and canceled the interview.

*I was a Continental Intern, so that could have affected the responst time, but I highly doubt it.

They were very quick to respond in April. They must have been hibernating in February.

FWIW, I recently interviewed with NWA and my interview group consisted of 1 AWAC, 1 Republic, 1 SkyWest, 1 Horizon, 1 Sun Country, 1 CHQ, and 2 XJET, and we ALL got hired. So I guess we are all equal when it comes to quality pilots. Or maybe NWA is just desperate!:D;)

I dunno they hired 2x as many XJT guys:eek:, hahah j/k

LOL! Maybe you're right. Haha, just kidding.