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Will spirit even look at me without a degree? I have 500hrs in an ERJ175 and will have 1000hrs in the spring. Before the airlines I was a non-degreed mechanical engineer, including department management.

We hire plenty of guys without degrees. The only caveat is that if you get hired you can’t just be happy to be here and be willing to work for less because a legacy wouldn’t hire you.

3000 hr is the minimum before they look at you unless you personally know a chief pilot.

What do you mean, I can’t just be happy? Did you mean I have to be happy staying at Spirit for the rest of my career, because Legacies won’t hire me?

He means don’t just settle here for what we have simply because it’s better than your last regional. We want to be better than just a REALLY great regional contract... which that mentality can lead to.

I see. Thanks for the explanation.

I mean I fly with lots of guys without degrees and all them are great pilots. The trend is that many of them feel like they didn’t have options elsewhere because of lacking the degree and are just happy to be here and feel it’s ok to get compensated less than a legacy pilot. Thats flawed logic

I have no degree, or 121 time and I got hired.

I don't have a degree and didn't have any 121 time and got hired

Pretty sure they want people without degrees because that means it will be harder for you to leave (for a legacy).


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That gives me some hope. How senior is the LAS base? If I were to get hired, it wouldn’t be a stepping stone. I would likely stay unless something happened to the company.

Possibly more like we get many more applicants without degrees because it isn’t a requirement, unlike other carriers, so we are likely to hire more pilots without a degree because of the larger amount in the application pool.

Could get LAS within a few months.

Doesn’t cost me anything to apply. In April I will have 1000hrs in the ERJ. So, I will apply then. Are they hiring FO to FO? Or do they only want applicants with 121 PIC time?

In my interview group back in August, they hired a regional FO with 0 TPIC time.

Well, I’ll give it a shot. Seems like a great place to be. Thank you everyone for your input.

Spirit seems to be big on experience to get an interview then personality once you get there.


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What would you recommend as far as getting to know some Spirit pilots? Is there a job fair in particular you would say I should definitely go to?

Undergrad degree
 

I’m kinda removed from that so I don’t really know about job fairs or anything. Just know that the less experience you have the more you’re going to have to get out there and meet people at Spirit if you want a shot at getting an interview. Someone I know just got hired without a job fair or meeting the chiefs but he has 9000 hours 121 and probably half that as PIC with no degree. He had letters of recommendation too. I know there are meet the chief events but not sure how you’d go about getting invited to one.


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Spirit had a booth at NGPA earlier this year, I’m guessing they will again at the next one. They host a job fair every year in Palm Springs, the next one is in February. If you look at their website they should be posting information soon about which companies will be attending. SF (our lead recruiter) was there and anyone who wanted was able to get some very good facetime with her.

I saw them at OBAP in August. Hired in September. Started in October.

Honestly with the amount of hiring we will be doing over the next 5 years, along with increased Legacy hiring, Spirit will be coming to your house to offer you a job. We have lots of planes coming but competition to get people to fly them is going to increase; especially when we are trying to get so many a year.

Now if an age 67 happened, that’s an entirely different direction.

Plenty of pilots here with degrees too. New contract, large aircraft orders......well who wants to leave? Moral is the best I’ve seen at any airline. I think Spirit just wants good people and good pilots. Degree or no degree, it doesn’t matter.

Come on now, don’t ruin the negative conversation with positive outlook. If anyone on here wants to know what Spirit is really like just talk to a random Spirit pilot you run into at the airport. You will find far more praise than resentment.

This is precisely what I did when I chose to three-leg it to and from my interview session. Picked their brains, learned a lot about it. Having been hired by multiple airlines simultaneously (well nearly), it was talking to crews F2F that drew me over...aaaaand queue the sarcasm. GO!