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The website is going through some changes… its back.

Careers main page, don't enter anything and just search… it'll be down the page a bit. Just a tech glitch in the website right now.

I hope it stays that way! Interviewing at the end of the month and would love to end up on the mad dog.

-80s are sticking around until 2020 I believe. Still have around 150 or so. I concur, bid it if you can... a true classic and one of my favorite aircraft I have ever flown!

AA73 beat me to it. The MD-80 is going to be around for a long time yet.

I jumped on the MD-11 years ago when it was being sold to FEDEX, and was a dying system. I'm glad I did, and I enjoyed it, but there's something to keep in mind when you bid a dying bid status...

First, the work load on the MD-80 is higher than other jets, but that's not a big deal. The main objection - as the jets are parked and pilots flowed off, the flow (displacement, stand-in-stead) is from the top down, meaning if you are really junior, you may be stuck there for quite a while.

That may not be an issue at all if you enjoy the jet and the flying.

I would gladly bid older equipment in DFW...close to home and an easy commute.

I got "new and shiny" out of my system long ago!

Now if AA would just send me an interview invite....

I'd fly old and no/short commute no problem.

I wonder if anything I've ever flown could be considered New & Shiny. The T-45s were the newest, and I think they were 15 years old and trapped out.

Any info from the MIA job fair today?

How is the school house for the Maddog? I thought it was posted here awhile back but I could not find it? I'm used to steam, but gotten quite used to the 190 and its glass. Regardless would still love to fly the 80!

The -80 fleet has some of the finest check airmen ever. Easy school too. As far as steam gauges go... the entire -80 fleet has either GFMS or dual FMCs with VNAV (newer birds.) All have the standard two-tube EFIS, and some have the digital engine gauges.

AA has done a good job in the last decade with both training, and with check airmen.

Usually, an airline's school house and CKA group tends to form a "good ol' boys club", where it's not how good you can instruct, it's who you know, and it can become stagnant and cliquish.

Somehow, they got it right and the bad CKA are 99% gone... and the training in all fleets has really improved. This is why I was a bit upset at my last recurrent when they were saying the US training personnel were coming on strong and trying to take over.

I have no doubt we need to adopt and import certain US things, and the list would include the reserve system, non-revving, quite a few others. But the AA schoolhouse is NOT broken, and is as good as I've seen it in 20+ years.