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Cyio 09-08-2025 03:40 PM


Originally Posted by 30WestEst (Post 3947150)
Poolie here that just got the call that I was no longer eligible for SWAs changing criteria. No information beyond that. The only thing I can think is that my 12 month time was low because I had a non-flying deployment at the end of last year.

Mil chief of Stan/Eval. 4200TT 1700TPIC.

Have to wait 12 months before I can reapply missing the hiring wave that’s about to happen. I’m a little speechless if I’m being honest.

Pathetic is the better word for the way we are handling this hiring process. The problem is that they took the pilots out of the process and replaced them with HR folks.

Socalpt6 09-08-2025 03:46 PM


Originally Posted by bamike (Post 3947154)
I have over 1000 pic 121 and after 2 weeks of waiting post logbook review I got the rejection letter. They said my application was no longer competitive. Zero failures and college degree. You're probably going to get rejected unfortunately. Sucks that they lied to us and told us we'd have a job waiting in the pool and then rejected us afterwards.

it’s called “conditional” for a reason. Curious what the rest of your app looked like.

They got 2400 applications in the first 8 hours and you got out bid. Sucks but no one lied to you.

WHACKMASTER 09-08-2025 04:12 PM


Originally Posted by 30WestEst (Post 3947150)
Poolie here that just got the call that I was no longer eligible for SWAs changing criteria. No information beyond that. The only thing I can think is that my 12 month time was low because I had a non-flying deployment at the end of last year.

Mil chief of Stan/Eval. 4200TT 1700TPIC.

Have to wait 12 months before I can reapply missing the hiring wave that’s about to happen. I’m a little speechless if I’m being honest.


That’s complete and utter horse___t. Sorry.

WHACKMASTER 09-08-2025 04:15 PM


Originally Posted by Socalpt6 (Post 3947181)
it’s called “conditional” for a reason. Curious what the rest of your app looked like.

They got 2400 applications in the first 8 hours and you got out bid. Sucks but no one lied to you.

Boy, you’re just a peach aren’t you?

RtRuddr 09-08-2025 04:25 PM


Originally Posted by Socalpt6 (Post 3947181)
it’s called “conditional” for a reason. Curious what the rest of your app looked like.

They got 2400 applications in the first 8 hours and you got out bid. Sucks but no one lied to you.

He was in the pool. Like from an application almost 2 years ago. Not someone who just applied in the last week.

Many of those pool people had official (non-conditional) offers, and 18 months of emails saying "you're still hired, we can't wait to bring you on, your offer is still good" only to be blindsighted with no real explanation. We were told many times since they stopped hiring that as long as you can still pass the background check and don't have any "incidents" our spots in a future class would be there. So they were in fact lied to.

e6bpilot 09-08-2025 04:30 PM

Wow. I am blown away. Sorry this is happening to you guys. Pathetic.

Venkman 09-08-2025 04:33 PM

I would imagine just about every NK pilot threw their app in for this one, so there's probably some prioritizing along with them being highly competeive in their own right. Tough times man...anytime things get good for a second, somebody has to crap the bed. First it was Boeing, now Spirit, soon as that blows over they'll pass age 67...on and on it goes.

Socalpt6 09-08-2025 04:37 PM


Originally Posted by RtRuddr (Post 3947207)
He was in the pool. Like from an application almost 2 years ago. Not someone who just applied in the last week.

Many of those pool people had official (non-conditional) offers, and 18 months of emails saying "you're still hired, we can't wait to bring you on, your offer is still good" only to be blindsighted with no real explanation. We were told many times since they stopped hiring that as long as you can still pass the background check and don't have any "incidents" our spots in a future class would be there. So they were in fact lied to.

Nope, they only had CJO’s.

RtRuddr 09-08-2025 04:54 PM


Originally Posted by Socalpt6 (Post 3947211)
Nope, they only had CJO’s.

Believe what you wanna believe man. But I have the CJO followed by and OJO from 2023 to back it up. And I've talked to several other guys in pool who also had an OJO before they stopped hiring.

at6d 09-08-2025 05:21 PM

I’m very sorry guys. I’m not proud of these moments, especially after the joy you likely experienced to have a CJO. UAL will be hiring quite a few soon—I’d say put in your apps when able. Again, apologies.


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