Boulderian

Of the new hires, the average age has been mid 30's for those coming from regionals, and lower 40's for those coming from military. Regional guys have mostly been Captains with generally 7-9 years of Part 121 experience.

The August 30 class has 12 guys (7 were United recalls, 5 were new hires.)

Most classes are for the 737. In the most recent class that offered 757, those went to the United recalls since these guys could hold a line already. Any new hire that ends up on the 757 (some in June classes) will be permanently on reserve until their likely displacement as they being parked.

Classes have been divided equally between IAH and EWR. There might be just a couple more classes left until SLI.

Hope this answers all your questions.

PeopleMover90

For those of you getting the thumbs up, congrats!!!

Just curious what your Quals are? Are you all with lots of TPIC, LCA, etc? Any FOs by chance getting calls? Or recent upgrade capts?

82spukram

I am a recent upgrade capt.

But to be completely fair I was capt at XJT and just upgraded at B6.

9300tt, 1100 PICT

Boulderian

There have been a few FOs that got hired but they had been interns or have had some TPIC experience in the past (corporate/other airline).

I personally think United is weighing more on experience than TPIC. I think that someone who has been stuck as an FO for 7-9 years and is a recent upgrade (Horizon, Eagle, Skywest) has a better chance of getting called than someone who has 2-3 years of experience at some fast track airline and upgraded after one year (just my opinion from what I have seen so far.)

Monkeyfly

Left jetBlue Captain to come to UA?

Could you share your thought process?

82spukram

Sure. This is going to be long and unedited so enjoy.

I live in TX (3hours and 15 min "IF" you drive the speed limit to IAH. Currently I take about 8-9 hours to get to JFK. (Drive 2 hours to DFW) then commute plus leave a back up. Now I know move to a b6 base. I lived just outside of Philly when I took the job at B6, drove to work, love it. Then I met my wife and screwed up my entire life. Moved to Texas , got married, supported my wife through grad school and ended up in Tyler Texas for a "few" months while my wife looked for jobs with in 2 hours of B6 bases. It was 2010-2011 time frame. Not much going on......then I got talked into starting a company with my wife.....yup I'm a sucker. So long story short I went all in on the wife's business and that is the first smart move I have made....her business is unbelievable. She can pay all the bills (just 18 months in). I believe she will be making more than me in 2 years.

So that is 1/3

Part 2/3
Next: Do you work for b6?
I am guessing you do not, well we are NOT wn! We had potential but then we changed CEO's (David Needleman is no friend to labor but he said he was going to do something and actually did it). Our current CEO is doing his job, I expect him to respect his fiduciary responsibility to the share holder, however over the last 4 years we have take away after takeaway from the pilots. Think of it as a fundamental shift......with weak profits to show. Our health care is major medical with industry high deductible. Retirement: just got to 13% through a back wards way. Profit sharing, HA.....that's part of your retirement. Work rules stacked in company favor. And trending to industry low compensation. And now they want unlimited domestic two code share. I could go on about the PVC structure but I am sure almost everyone has stopped reading. So onto.......

Part 3/3

No one in my family works in the airlines. I have been taking wild @ss guesses on how to make this career happen. But as a child my father traveled a lot. One summer we took a family vacation and my dad and I left a day early and took United. A full day of hanging out with my dad (we drove through parts of the midwest and did 100 plus mph, let me pee on the side of the road, eat what ever wanted ......all things mom would have been ****ed about) Probably one of he best days of my childhood. So this is why United (along with some other reason....but honestly who cares), found memories soon to be destroyed by making my job (good thinking?)

As a fellow pilot part 2 is what you looking for but I wanted to paint the whole picture. Moving, not going to happen. Money, we live a conservative life style (bought house based off of e190 Fo pay at 70 hours month). A little bit of Dream job. I should point out I have always said biggest complaint about b6, my commute. If you know me then you know I am not Downer all the time. I like my life......just b6 doesn't offer me anything worth commuting for anymore.

XCAL

All the new hires on the 756 are going to EWR. I don't think the EWR 756 base will shrink anytime soon. All the 757 fleet aircraft losses are on the L-UAL side. They are being replaced by the 737s hence the growth of the 737 flying and bases in the former L-UAL bases.

Most of the new hires bid the 737 so they may get off reserve sooner. I will agree you can get off reserve quicker in a 737 base vs. a 757 base.

avi8tor220

I know this may be a tough question to answer and it might be in the wrong thread, but do you guys know if United reps attend the yearly career expo at Embry Riddle? Has any Riddle alumni ever talk to United reps if they were there? Thanks.

TK421

Just got call last Monday to verify Name, SSN, flight times, etc. NO prior email. I was told my app was being fwd to hiring managers and if I "meet the requirements" expect contact within 14 days (prob email) to continue process for interview. Three questions:

1. Has anyone gotten this call and NOT eventually interviewed (assuming the Hogan test went well)?

2. How long from initial phone call to next contact?

3. Is there a better thread that is covering this process up to the interview? I assume this has all been covered ad nauseum, but my thread surfing skills are lacking today. Thanks!

One Up

What are your quals? Internal recs? LCA? Also, when did you apply?

Thanks!