AWAC Call for interview time?
 

How long does it usually take for AWAC to call you if they are interested in you coming in for an interview?

Depends, but usually no longer than 3-4 weeks.

Friend says 4 weeks. They usually aren't interested in folks with former 121, because they don't want the bad eggs from other co's.

I don't see why they would not want you just because you have prior 121! Alot of people like me are switching due to domiciles and qol! It has nothing to do with being a "bad pilot."

I have never heard this "bad egg" theory. There are lots of guys here with previous 121 and in fact about a year before I was hired it was all but a requirement to have it. I wouldn't worry about it. Hope you get a call... unless you are a bad egg... or bad pilot... or whatever...

Not correct.

Absolutely not correct. I had four people in my class coming from prior 121 experience.

Good one guy.... just flew with someone from the training dept. They have an ENTIRE class right now from BigSky (8 ppl)....just held a job fair in MKE for Skyway guys and had an excellent turnout. I think prior 121 beats 400tt/50 multi.

i don't know how to categorize this one: it's either the funniest or the dumbest thing i heard in a while...

I'm going with dumbest. There was a time not all that long ago where prior 121 was practically a prerequisite.

Not everyone in that class is from BigSky. I was at that job fair along with two of my colleagues. We were there from 10am when they opened till 1pm and were the only pilot applicants there. More may have showed up between 1pm and when they closed at 4pm. One of my colleagues was hired with 500 and 140 and is in that class. I was not hired. I had 1000 and 150. We're flight instructors. Besides flight instructors in that class, some are 135 and some 121 from Mesa and somewhere else.

roughly 4 days back in July......take it for what it is worth, AWAC was cranking them in back then I guess

...? Where in the world did you come up with this?:confused:

I don't think that is statement is entirely wrong. Interviewed in 2005 with a few FLYi guys and was the only one hired. They had 2000-5000 hours and I had 900.
Attitude is everything at AWAC. The FLYi guys had the 5 times the experience I had but, it was obvious that they were not too excited about working here. I have also heard stories about guys that flew the rj at other airlines not using the AWAC callouts.
Is it hard to teach and old dog new tricks??