Application Question
 

There’s 2 forms the give you at the interview. One is the printed app (same format as if you printed your app PDF), another is a summary that only they have access to. My printed app that they handed me to correct was at least 3 months old, which I know because I completely overhauled my app and fixed some things 3 months before my invite and the changes I made weren’t on there (just verbiage changes, auditing hours, spelling errors, etc) The summary sheet had all these changes and up-to-date hours. So I’d assume the app is printed when they look at it, but they also print a summary snapshot when they send you an invite, and they want both corrected/updated in red pen when you get there for your interview. Like a previous poster said, hours off by <100hrs need no correction.

Captsurfer

My info is from 5 years ago but here is my experience. I applied to UAL the last week of May 2013. I figured I had “years” to get my app together and cleaned up since I had not used AirlineApps since 2007 (I was hired at B6 and then everyone stopped hiring). UAL called me 2 days after I applied. My address was wrong, flight times were guesses that ended being 800 hours off (hadn’t logged time in 6 years), and I found a good bit of grammatical errors. I updated all that information between first phone call and interview. The BIG thing is the jobs, the experience, the meat and potatoes did not change. I brought an updated app (printout from airline app), resume, and things that were on the paperwork that it said to bring to the interview.

I was hired and no one seemed to mind. I think it’s important that if you said you were check airman then you better be one, if you said you have 2000 as a captain at an airline then you better be a captain and have 2000ish hours as a captain not 1501 and rounded up. Interviews are a big deal and you want to be perfect both on paper and in person but we are all pilots. When was your last perfect flight? I’ve never had one.....so why would the interview be any different?

Good luck

Hell, I had all kinds of tickets...Speeding, stop signs, red lights...you name it, and they still hired me 21 years ago. The secret is...Even though it says “type or print neatly”...Just type the damn application! :D
Seriously...Good luck! Hope to fly with ya soon.