Eagle Pool?
 

Anyone else hear AE was hiring into a pool now?

If Eagle stops hiring then I think we can say all hiring has stopped.

Eagle has not stopped hiring so there is no pool. The minimus went up, thats all

Actually, There is a pool now.

AE has stopped paying for jet transition courses. A lot of people were hired based on the condition that they get this course. However, since AE is no longer providing it, either they PAY for the transition course out of pocket or get enough multi time to meet the new mins. Then their application is put back through the captain's board for approval. (Meaning even if you pay for the course, you aren't guaranteed a job). The pool is in case AE starts paying for jet courses or someone's minimums go up enough, they can be placed in training.

Some people have even been flown out to redo portions of the interview (sim, tech) to see if they can skip this requirement. Don't know how they have fared.

Source: 3 friends in the pool.

I have a friend that interviewed on Wednesday this week, did the medical on Thursday and was given a condition offer. He passed the captain's board today, and they're waiting on his fingerprints and urinalysis to give him a class date. He was told the June 9th class is open for the taking. He has around 600TT and more than 100 multi. I'll post again when he is given a class date.

I was in the same group as your friend only I wasn't so lucky. I got the dreaded "offer is rescinded" email. Have no idea why. 2500TT 1200 multi, type bla, bla, bla. Thought thing went real well.

I continue to wonder why the AE HR dept turns down people with experience like yourself. This definitely isnt the first (or last) case of someone with more than 1000+hrs flight time getting rejected. I dont know if they are looking for desperate low-timers who needs to build 1000-2000hrs with AE before going elsewhere?

Personality sometimes wins over experience.

Is this a case of having too much time??? I don't understand why they would go through the steps of interviewing me only to rescind. I retired from the FAA today so it's still a good day. I'm 49 yo. Maybe I'm too old??? Just wish I knew so I could fix it. My goal was to stay with Eagle until I really retired. Felt good with the interviewers. We talked and one of them even joked with me later on in the day. I don't know what they're looking for. They kind of gave me a hard time because I was a controller. We laughed but took care of business. Both the HR and tech interviews felt good. Something had to happen after I left. I know there is no problem with a background check. Oh well life goes on....

Maybe they're afraid people with more hours will jump ship sooner once things start getting better? (hopefully they get better?)

We had an ATA guy with 16K hours. He didn't even have to do the sim. He did everything on Wed and was gone. If they're afraid of folks jumping ship why waste the time interviewing? The only thing I can think of is the only airplane I have flown in the last 6 months has been my Bonanza. Maybe they would feel better with twin recency?

Squawkoff, I re-did the tech portion also this week and got the letter or rescind. I felt pretty good about my re-interview also and although my experience wasn't as good yours I felt I had decent qualifications (1100/300, 4 yr degree, ATP written). I'm pretty disappointed also.

You think they could be slowing down hiring? I noticed TSA has stopped or slowed down the hiring. Maybe the entire industry is starting to show the strain from high oil prices?

WOW, I just got home from the RJ course that EAGLE PAID for and was told that my Class on May 26th as been "postponed indefinitely, if I had any questions to call." So Eagle just spent $10k on my course, I completed it with no problem and then they call to tell me I'm not going to get hired...

My class-mates got the same call, so there goes $60,000 on training and Eagle doesn't even want us now. Guess it's back to looking for a job. Thanks for the RJ course :)

Anybody try Comair ?