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Old 09-14-2006 | 07:10 PM
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Just wondering how long and how many rejection letters it took everyone to land their first airline job???
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Old 09-14-2006 | 07:46 PM
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3 or 4 months, 2 rejections, one pool and a lot of waiting. Paid off though, I ended up at ExpressJet and can't think of a better place to be. Best of luck to you.
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Old 09-15-2006 | 07:13 AM
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I got 2 rejection Emails from XJT, than I had an interview with Colgan got that job waited 9 months reapplied to XJT, got that job and taking it so far im 2/2 on the interviews but did get denied my 1st two attempts with xjt, just got a call yesterday from Air willie which is an awesome company, but I have wanted Expressjet for a long long long time, Out of Newark is going to be badass( for me anyway) and the Erj is better than the CRJ hehe
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Old 09-15-2006 | 07:58 AM
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i was shot down by asa twice and between the two asa interviews i was hired by mesaba just after they declared bankruptcy needless to say i never started class and then i was picked up by xjt and can't wait.
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Old 09-15-2006 | 09:17 AM
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hey bro, you say you can;'t wait to start my date is the 2nd of October, when is yours?
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Old 09-15-2006 | 10:58 AM
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Hired by TSA (declined), hired by PSA & put into a pool, rejected by Airnet, rejected by ASA, declined interview with Regions, Piedmont & Colgan, hired by Air Wisconsin & given same class date as with PSA. I chose Wisconsin and withdrew from consideration at PSA, opening up a slot for someone else in the pool. Had interviews pending at Eagle when hired at AWAC and never got called from Expressjet and Skywest. RAH told me to basically quit sending resumes until I met their new hard mins of 1500/300.

Total span: 8 months.
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Old 09-15-2006 | 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by SAABaroowski
hey bro, you say you can;'t wait to start my date is the 2nd of October, when is yours?
Hey Saab and poor,

I just started training on monday, just finished the first week (basic indoc). It hasn't been too bad so far, and we've got a great bunch of guys in our class.

From everything everyone has told me we're about to get our ASSES kicked by systems class. But we have lots of experience in our group lots of jet experience so I'll definately be using their know-how when the going gets tough.

Good luck to you both for your training class and if you have any questions feel free to PM me
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Old 09-15-2006 | 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by aussieflyboy
Hey Saab and poor,

I just started training on monday, just finished the first week (basic indoc). It hasn't been too bad so far, and we've got a great bunch of guys in our class.

From everything everyone has told me we're about to get our ASSES kicked by systems class. But we have lots of experience in our group lots of jet experience so I'll definately be using their know-how when the going gets tough.

Good luck to you both for your training class and if you have any questions feel free to PM me
Good that you got some experience in your class. Just make sure you take everything someone says with a grain of salt and can verify what they are saying for yourself. Nothing worse than the blind leading the blind Best of luck to you, study hard, study often. After systems, the rest is cake!
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Old 09-15-2006 | 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by freezingflyboy
Good that you got some experience in your class. Just make sure you take everything someone says with a grain of salt and can verify what they are saying for yourself. Nothing worse than the blind leading the blind Best of luck to you, study hard, study often. After systems, the rest is cake!
Thanks buddy,

I'll definately heed your advice about the other guys advice, ive never flown a turbine aircraft before so i'll be keenly listening to them.

I've been reading alot and keeping up to pace so far, systems starts on wednesday and we have CRM before that. Most of the other guys went home for the weekend but me and a handful of guys chose to stay here and study instead. I figure i need to give myself the best headstart I can get
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Old 09-15-2006 | 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by freezingflyboy
3 or 4 months, 2 rejections, one pool and a lot of waiting. Paid off though, I ended up at ExpressJet and can't think of a better place to be. Best of luck to you.
are you really saying that 3-4 months is a long time???
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