110 attempts, 13 windows open on two different browsers. I got in!!!!!

 

Wow congrats

 

Seriously guys, go through your application and check the date last flown... not the hours but the dates. Are they updated? What about your availability date? Is it set in the future? I wouldn't put 2 weeks availability, but rather a firm date 2-3 months ahead. Is your medical updated and correctly stated on your app? Every month of the last 10 years accounted for and properly documented? Do you round your flight time so it's all perfectly round to a hundred or thousand? If you do, stop! Take time and present your flight time accurately to 1 hour. In other words, it's not 8000TT, 6000ME, 5000 turbine, 3000 TPIC. It's probably something like 7846TT, 5840ME, 5021 turbine and 3012 TPIC.

Guys... you're essentially trying to get a computer to pull your name. A computer will not pull you if you don't look "good", and that "looking good" isn't necessarily your type rating or turbine PIC or college degree... those are assumed. Does your application look good? Did you omit something? Do your numbers (dates, flight times, availability) make sense?

If you volunteer in some shape or form, be sure it's annotated. Remember, it's a huge plus to any major airline, not to mention its good for your soul.

Attention to detail and checking off required and as many preferred boxes will get you an interview. Your personality and fit will determine if you're successful. At this stage, it is assumed you can fly a plane.

Good luck!


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I got a ticket when it first opened right before noon CDT. I had three browser windows open on my PC on the home wifi and two on my phone on the mobile broadband. I periodically refreshed each. At certain times the "registration open soon" page would load very slowly but usually the page would not load quickly enough and generate an error message from within the browser. I got lucky, one of the browser windows on my phone loaded the registration link and I was able to get a ticket right away.

I feel for everyone who did not get to register. I know the disappointment from the SWA event last fall as well as the most recent DAL event when I was not able to get a ticket.

Hopefully the recruitment personnel at the majors can come up with a better system. I think a good and fair way would be to opt in to a ticket lottery from your application.

 

It seems ridiculous that we wait all morning for the window to open, the window opens, we all wait in the "waiting room" for however many people to "complete their turns," it says "sold out," and then others, an hour or later after that all happens, get tickets (good for you, BTW). Obviously the waiting room is not anything other than a placebo to make you think like something is actually happening. There must be some internet code of ethics breach for faking a ticket line. What's the point of a virtual queue if it doesn't really mean anything?

 

Refreshed from 8am Central until early afternoon constantly, then got into the waiting room only to get the Sold Out message. Now apparently it wasn't sold out? Some have 2 tix? Typical aviation cluster F. Why "invite" 20,000 to an event that holds 400?

 

Tried all day long. 2 devices, hit refresh thousands of times, in the "waiting room" dozens of times....nada. I need a drink.

 

It's a circus. Very disappointing to possibly decide your career based on a fastest left click lottery. Unprofessional to run an organization this way. Bush league.

 

I got in after 2pm Central. A lot of people had probably given up by then.

 

Stayed up all night clicking refresh and finally passed out around 2:30 AM my time (China). Woke up this morning to this screen....what a disappointment!