Excargodog

True enough. If they are going to go through the time, effort, and expense to haul your @$$ to Denver to interview they are hoping to hire you. They can send you a TBNT email with a whole lot less effort and expense.

BlueScholar

I will never understand these posts. Of course you're not competetive, because you haven't even filled out an app yet which is literally the bare minimum requirement! So right now, your chances of being hired are zero. If you want to have a career at a legacy and make tens of millions of dollars over the course of your career, then spend 3 hours filling out an application, and ideally spend $900 your app reviews and interview prep. If you don't don't get a call immediately, then continue periodically updating your app and continue checking boxes to be even more competetive, go to meet and greets, etc. If you do apply and get a call right away, it's probably a sign that you screwed up by not applying weeks or months ago. Every day that passes until you get hired means between 4 and 6 people getting hired before you, and yeah some of them will have fewer hours. Some will have more. Hours aren't the end all be all app metric, and rough stats that people post after a CJO or TBNT don't have nearly enough detail to figure out what the magic formula is and why they got hired or didn't. It sucks, it's a haze, but its literally the only way to get hired.

JMora

For reference, these are my stats. Very similiar background and I'm pretty sure we worked at the same two companies.

2900 TT
A320, 75/767 types
500 turbine
1200ish PIC @ 135 operation
4 year degree
0 checkride fails

Still waiting on United to get back to me. Only been about two months, but I'm still low on turbine. I've heard 750 turbine is the difference, but also know of people who have gotten CJOs with 500. Good luck!

IFartInYourSeat

Fill out the application. I got this advice a long time ago about being invited to an interview I felt I was under qualified for: If you get invited to an interview, know the company has deemed you worthy of hire. These days, they don’t have the time to bring you in just to tell you “no.” If you’re invited for an interview, you’re gonna have to give them a reason to not hire you.

To summarize? If you’re invited for an interview it means they want you to work for them.

Don’t worry about showing up just to be laughed outta the panel.

60av8tor

You and me both. Seems like there are more and more these days. I put my apps in to the big 3 back in '18 before I had the, at the time, magic 1000 121 pic - didn't even cross my mind to ask a bunch of random people if I was competitive; I was probably not competitive at all, but who cares? I got an app review, submitted my apps, and updated them after almost every trip.

11atsomto

Seen people with more not get hired, seen people with less get hired. For your "STATS" you are on the lower side of most new hire classes. But you probably already or at least SHOULD already know stats are only part of the process.
Honestly and please don't take it the wrong way....your most impressive stat is your father who has sweat, sacrificed, and went to work on holidays and weekends for 35 years for this company.

Swakid8

We have a thread for these types of questions….

Interview/Hiring Updates

fostro

Agreed on all points! The time from application to assessment was a week or so, interview invitation was a few days after the assessment. This was during the holiday season and it was still very quick!

Not sure if this makes a difference, but I do have a bunch of Captain time in the CRJ as well as right seat A330 international time.

TK Next, in Unity...

OpieTaylor

Yea, like right now as in today.

United just put the Max 10 on a shelf and it won’t take long for those 3,000 jobs to go on a shelf with it.

No one can tell if he’s rolling back his ambitions United next a bit and using Boeing as a scapegoat, or they really are squeezing his nuts that hard.

Otterbox

A while ago, Kirby mentioned in a Q&A that UALs Max order has the ability to convert Max 10 to max 9 at a favorable price. What does that mean in practicals terms? Probably that UAL will be getting 200 Max 10 delayed or 250 max 9s on less of a delay when it's all said and done. Outside shot 100 321 NEO instead for the same price. Any way you slice it, UALs domestic network was neglected for decades and United needs airframes to correct structural deficiencies and compete. COVID showed the real dangers of too heavy of an international footprint without a robust domestic network.

Overall weakness in the economy will have more effect on lost pilot jobs than UAL shuffling around orders and deliveries of different types of Max aircraft.