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10-29-2011, 06:57 AM
#1161
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10-29-2011, 07:20 AM
#1162
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10-29-2011, 07:43 AM
#1163
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10-29-2011, 07:44 AM
#1164
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Originally Posted by 3XLoser View Post
I got the rejection e-mail today. Guess I'll just go hang myself with my brand new Blue interview tie.
Sorry to hear that man. Try not to take it personally. I can't even buy an interview. (3,000hr+ C-130IP). A few years ago a buddy of mine didn't get hired at Delta when interviewed. Now he flies for FedEx. These things have a way of working themselves out. Best of luck.
I got the rejection e-mail today. Guess I'll just go hang myself with my brand new Blue interview tie.
Sorry to hear that man. Try not to take it personally. I can't even buy an interview. (3,000hr+ C-130IP). A few years ago a buddy of mine didn't get hired at Delta when interviewed. Now he flies for FedEx. These things have a way of working themselves out. Best of luck.
10-29-2011, 10:01 AM
#1165
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Position: P-3C
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Congrats Flyn2001. I'll send you a PM.
10-29-2011, 11:11 AM
#1166
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10-29-2011, 11:38 AM
#1167
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Roger that. I had the opportunity to meet with Capt. Green last week at the ERAU job fair who began with the same three primary questions...how many busted check rides, how much glass time, and how many hours in the past year? My answers were zero, zero, and less than 500, the last two being the deal breaker. He explained that the learning curve for glass for someone "our age" is fairly steep. I did jump seat home on a B6 A320, the F/O from a Piedmont DHC-8.
I was one of the older guys there I think, and most of my time is antique, analog, raw-data time, even lots of straight-pipe time (real turbojet), but I also have thousands of hours of glass time too (Boeing instead of Airbus). I can learn the bus. I've never had a bust either, and I'm also no longer flying a 900 hour per year airline schedule, although I did that for 15 years. You know, a lot of good corporate jobs are 200-300 hours per year, and that's where the pilots truly live premium customer service. Why should that be a deal breaker?
10-29-2011, 12:04 PM
#1168
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I was one of the older guys there I think, and most of my time is antique, analog, raw-data time, even lots of straight-pipe time (real turbojet), but I also have thousands of hours of glass time too (Boeing instead of Airbus). I can learn the bus. I've never had a bust either, and I'm also no longer flying a 900 hour per year airline schedule, although I did that for 15 years. You know, a lot of good corporate jobs are 200-300 hours per year, and that's where the pilots truly live premium customer service. Why should that be a deal breaker?
10-29-2011, 12:40 PM
#1169
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That's messed up, but that's their right. I'm only early 40s. I've had formal glass training. At Midwest, we had a very thorough glass class to make sure all of us diesel-9 pilots got through. I'm current, been to formal school recently, currently flying high-end clients in business jets. I understand customer service better than they do, really, I'm actually sitting in a client's house somewhere in the Carribean typing this. When I explained in the interview how the old Midwest's product was the dedication of the employees to providing a superior travel experience; the product wasn't the cookies, and the jetBlue employees seem to have the same vision, the HR rep responded by asking "did you try the blue potato chips, they're so good." And then the line pilot responded with, "you know they sell Midwest Airlines cookies in Milwaukee grocery stores." The interview may have been over at that point, and maybe I was wrong; maybe they don't get it. They'd rather have young RJ drivers who've only shuttled farmed out commodity seats full of permanently disgruntled passengers. Oh well, I would've given them 23 damn good years.
10-29-2011, 03:29 PM
#1170
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Position: B1900/R, CRJ/L, E190/R
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That's messed up, but that's their right. I'm only early 40s. I've had formal glass training. At Midwest, we had a very thorough glass class to make sure all of us diesel-9 pilots got through. I'm current, been to formal school recently, currently flying high-end clients in business jets. I understand customer service better than they do, really, I'm actually sitting in a client's house somewhere in the Carribean typing this. When I explained in the interview how the old Midwest's product was the dedication of the employees to providing a superior travel experience; the product wasn't the cookies, and the jetBlue employees seem to have the same vision, the HR rep responded by asking "did you try the blue potato chips, they're so good." And then the line pilot responded with, "you know they sell Midwest Airlines cookies in Milwaukee grocery stores." The interview may have been over at that point, and maybe I was wrong; maybe they don't get it. They'd rather have young RJ drivers who've only shuttled farmed out commodity seats full of permanently disgruntled passengers. Oh well, I would've given them 23 damn good years.
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