My scenario in 2023 was a passenger medical situation, the interviewer wanted to see my thought process around diversion. Destination and alternate at minimums but a divert airport had good weather. Really they just want to see that you'll gather inputs from all sources (your FO, Dispatch, ATC, FAs who are dealing with the situation in back), make a decision and be able to explain your thought process. Anyone who's been in 121 aviation for 10 minutes should have no problem with the scenarios.

None of the three segments were hostile, although I had a really weird experience during the HR portion. There was an HR rep and a SWA FO. The FO had been a CA at one of the ME3 carriers and spent significant time complaining openly that the seniority system wasn't fair, that he should be a CA because of his previous experience. It may have been a trap, so I just tried to empathize without agreeing with him, if that makes sense. Perhaps a trick designed to see how I'd react to a grumpy CA explaining why QAnon is the one true religion?

Aside from that, the whole day was low threat.

 

I hate to say it but this may have been the real scenario based assessment, not the divert thing. I diverted maybe 2x in 7 years but this other thing apparently happens weekly to some folks, depending on their base.

 

i think they leave it up to the interviewer. Mine for instance was just a question to throw me off . It was during logbook review and they asked how much line check airman instruction time I had. Obviously not something I logged so I thought about and I said well I was a LCA fo X amount of time, I typically flew 80 hours a month as a line holder and about 1/3 minimum of that was IOE/OE so my conservative estimate is X.

was a good interview, I felt the biggest question you have to answer well to every interviewer because they will all ask is “why SWA?” And some might go further into that like well why if X called? You know we only fly 737 here and our upgrade time is Y….


this was a long time ago for me but that’s my experience