Misspelled Airlineapps.com email contact!
 

I am freaking out. Today, I saw a post on our pilots' Facebook page to check for the next 2019 job fair/expo email. They said if your app is out, you will get it... I did not. I have just realized that I misspelled my contact email address after two years with my app out! I feel that I am getting to the competitive stage in my regional career and am genuinely terrified that I might have missed an invite/ hogan assessment! Please, can someone put me at ease? Is there another way they get to you? Do they retry after X amount of months?... And yes, I know, I'm an idiot! Ughhhhhhh... :(

First thing I’d do is send an email to that incorrect email and see if it bounced back as invalid. If so, set up a new email using that incorrect email, at least temporarily. If it doesn’t bounce back it may belong to someone. If so, send an email to it explaining your situation. Not sure what you’d say, but you have to give it a shot. Who knows, they might say oh so you’re the one they invited to take that Hulk Hogan test.

Also, I think the folks who run the hiring are probably pretty good folks. If you can, call them or send an email to them explaining your error. It happens. Ask if you missed an invite. There will be a record of it. They will tell you. Who knows, maybe you’ll really connect with them and get an invite because of this. What a country!

I thought invites for expo go out in July..

Thanks that's good advice! Squallrider yea, the Pilot Career Expo invites go out in July but the announcement just went out.

They only contact you by email. You even schedule your interview online from an email link (at least that's how it was a few years ago).

The good news is: chances are your application never got pulled if you are describing yourself as just "getting to the competitive stage" in your regional career. APC225 had great advice about the email address thing.

Whether or not contacting them is a good idea is a tougher question to answer. You're basically going to be admitting poor attention to detail. I don't know that they'll be sympathetic. But I also could be wrong.

right... they could look negatively against it or it could speak to my character for calling myself out and resolving the issue. Who would I even contact about that though? I don't want to be throwing my name all around UAL management as the guy who couldn't even get his email address correct.

Fill out a new app profile with the right email address. If you have LORs on file contact them again and send them a copy and paste of their letter so it won’t be hard for them to resend.

Poop happens.

Korect speling iz oveuratid. Chil.

Relax. Breathe. Find you mistake, admit it, fix it and move forwrd. The macro things in the industry are (finally) in your favor if you have the qualifications.


Fly the Airplane, Silence the Warning, Confirm the Emergency oh, and then fix the problem.


Cheers; hope it works out.

A United person told me my app wasn't being looked at because of my incident. The incident in question was me sitting in the jumpseat while the operating crew did a high speed abort and blew the fuse plugs. Good luck with all the other airlines though!

Sounds the lawyers made that call.

Why do another new profile when you can just update your contact information with the existing one and correct spelling? Sounds like a lot of work for same result.

None of this makes any sense. What are you seriously talking about?

I wouldn't believe anything that "United person" told you.

No “United person” who was actually privy to that information would tell you your app is not being looked at. Also your story makes no sense.

When you get interview calls from Alaska, Delta, American, Southwest, and FedEx, but not even a sniff from United, you start to wonder. At the time the Delta and United apps were near identical on airlineapps. So I called my buddy who’s been there for a couple of decades and knows people. He checked in on why I wasn’t called. He said it’s “some incident you have on your app.”

Obviously I know what my app said, and the only incident listed was occupying a jumpseat on an aborted take off in which we evacuated the jet after blowing the fuse plugs. I felt it noteworthy to list since I was on the crew. Delta didn’t see a problem with it, obviously neither did the other airlines. United did.

There was a time I wanted to work for United, but now I’ve found my fit and it’s all good. But that doesn’t negate the fact that United didn’t call because of said incident in which I was riding on the jumpseat. So back to the original poster, it’s not all good that you messed up your app at one mistake United, good luck!

So judging from your screen name, you’re doing well at American? Good for you!

Some of this is about luck. I had great connections at AA was living in South Florida and put all my effort into AA. Other than filling out the app I put 0 effort into UA. Never heard a peep from AA and have been at UA for 5 years now. I got lucky at United and unlucky at American.

If your "incident" on the jumpseat had anything to do with United not calling, then there's more to the story than what you're letting on.

Make the correction and hope for the best. I would not contact them, as they will wonder if something was that important how you make a mistake with your own personal email!? Kind of like typos on your resume you give them the day of an interview. Good luck!

I feel like its a double edge sword on this one. I agree that I could do some damage by contacting anyone at UA, so I don't think I will. Yea, United is overly concerned on certain areas of the application process, but they've gotta weed out the less qualified of the supposed 10,000 applicants. More reason not to open my mouth about such a blatant mistake. Well, I have a UA chief meet and greet at the end of the month from one of my lifelong United mentors, so maybe I can feel everything out then. BTW anyone know what a Chief Pilot can truly see or do regarding applications? Just curious. Either way, I am very fortunate to be getting this opportunity.

In this past seven days of public consternation and self-flagellation, how much closer have you gotten to your goal?

This.

Exactly, LOIs, by default, are not disqualifying.

Which CP are you meeting with? Some are more adept than others. If you are coming to DC...keep your expectations extremely low.

The folks who send out the emails are not the decision makers. I know it’s nerve-wracking, but if you are wondering if they sent an email inviting you to interview to the wrong email address, either set up an account with that address and see if that email suddenly populates your inbox, or just call the pilot hiring dept and tell them you noticed a mistake on your app and want to check and see if an offer had been sent. You’re really making this into something bigger than it actually is.

You know that’s not quite how email works.. either that email address already exists and belongs to someone else or if it didn’t exist, it would have been rejected by the server. It’s not gonna sit in some undelivered mail cyber space waiting for someone to create an email address.

If you want to see if you are getting the email address correctly you can have airlineapps or PC send you a test email. I changed my email to a new account that only has my airline applications associated with it to a Gmail account dedicated to them so I don't have to sift through all my other crap looking for a invite emails. I had both PC and Airlinesapps confirm and they sent me test emails.

Just for peace of mind.