Why would anyone come here now? Serious Q
#71
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Joined APC: Dec 2019
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It’s not fishy, always keep your options open. Accepted a position at spirit and kept pursuing jet blue. Got offered an interview a week before my class date and eventually turned down the invite. I have active applications out with other carriers that I’m keeping updated too. Doesn’t mean I’d turn around and accept an interview invite right away. I know several people who have active applications out who originally planned to leave asap but now plan to stay.
#72
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Joined APC: Sep 2022
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Maybe in todays hiring environment things have changed, but when I was looking for job you didn’t post your app unless you wanted the job. If you got an invite and turned it down that was it. You were done with that airline. Hence why this story above seems so weird to me.
#73
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Adding my experience:
Fourth year NK FO. Like Spirit but interested in Legacy A for personal reasons, basing one of them. Began applying to Legacy A, and also Legacy B, in March. Close to 1500 hours SIC on the Airbus. No TPIC though as I never upgraded at my regional. Didn't hear anything from Legacy A until October. Have never heard from Legacy B.
Interviewed at Legacy A this week. I think it went alright but I think I could have done better on the technical scenarios. There were eight other pilots in my little interview group. There were zero regional pilots, and only one military. Three of us were from ULCC.
Yesterday I was talking to one of our pilots, not that much junior too me, who has a job offer from Legacy C. In his interview group of 20, 10 were military, 5 were regional (all captains), 5 were non-regional civilian. Everyone was hired except the regional pilots.
Fourth year NK FO. Like Spirit but interested in Legacy A for personal reasons, basing one of them. Began applying to Legacy A, and also Legacy B, in March. Close to 1500 hours SIC on the Airbus. No TPIC though as I never upgraded at my regional. Didn't hear anything from Legacy A until October. Have never heard from Legacy B.
Interviewed at Legacy A this week. I think it went alright but I think I could have done better on the technical scenarios. There were eight other pilots in my little interview group. There were zero regional pilots, and only one military. Three of us were from ULCC.
Yesterday I was talking to one of our pilots, not that much junior too me, who has a job offer from Legacy C. In his interview group of 20, 10 were military, 5 were regional (all captains), 5 were non-regional civilian. Everyone was hired except the regional pilots.
#74
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Joined APC: Nov 2019
Posts: 111
Adding my experience:
Fourth year NK FO. Like Spirit but interested in Legacy A for personal reasons, basing one of them. Began applying to Legacy A, and also Legacy B, in March. Close to 1500 hours SIC on the Airbus. No TPIC though as I never upgraded at my regional. Didn't hear anything from Legacy A until October. Have never heard from Legacy B.
Interviewed at Legacy A this week. I think it went alright but I think I could have done better on the technical scenarios. There were eight other pilots in my little interview group. There were zero regional pilots, and only one military. Three of us were from ULCC.
Yesterday I was talking to one of our pilots, not that much junior too me, who has a job offer from Legacy C. In his interview group of 20, 10 were military, 5 were regional (all captains), 5 were non-regional civilian. Everyone was hired except the regional pilots.
Fourth year NK FO. Like Spirit but interested in Legacy A for personal reasons, basing one of them. Began applying to Legacy A, and also Legacy B, in March. Close to 1500 hours SIC on the Airbus. No TPIC though as I never upgraded at my regional. Didn't hear anything from Legacy A until October. Have never heard from Legacy B.
Interviewed at Legacy A this week. I think it went alright but I think I could have done better on the technical scenarios. There were eight other pilots in my little interview group. There were zero regional pilots, and only one military. Three of us were from ULCC.
Yesterday I was talking to one of our pilots, not that much junior too me, who has a job offer from Legacy C. In his interview group of 20, 10 were military, 5 were regional (all captains), 5 were non-regional civilian. Everyone was hired except the regional pilots.
How is life as a 4th year FO at NK?
When are you able to hold an upgrade?
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#75
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#78
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Joined APC: May 2019
Posts: 988
#79
Someone asked about life here. While the grid is a lot more red on the FO side (base dependent) I still get most of what I want in my award and basically all of the days off I need. Even with a red grid I can still swap into different sometimes better trips over my original trip award, so still have some flexibility.
I love it here and have no plans on leaving. That said I do realize that someone hired today in the 3000s is a hell of a lot diff than myself 3.5 years ago when I was 1900ish on the list. I was fortunate to be one of the first classes with massive hiring until Covid hit. Then we continued hiring 9-10 months after Covid continuously.
The tough part of this career is timing, good and bad. Again I 100% understand why we have such high attrition. It’s a totally diff airline for a new hire today vs 4 years ago.
I believe when all the BS growing/merger pains are over the new Blue is going to workout well. I’m not old, but I’m not insanely young either. I could probably leave, but I look at where I’ll realistically be after an SLI on a 7-8,000 combined pilot list and it doesn’t make a lot of sense to leave.
#80
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Joined APC: Aug 2020
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