American Airlines job fair

Jordan93 said:
Am I the only one that wouldn’t want to bring a significant other to a job fair?
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It wouldn't be the first time.

My friend was at a table adjacent to his where the candidate brought his wife and she kept asking questions about vacation, medical and saying things like "Well, at X we get this, what do YOU give at Southernjets?"

Lets get the interview, first...
 
Derg said:
It wouldn't be the first time.

My friend was at a table adjacent to his where the candidate brought his wife and she kept asking questions about vacation, medical and saying things like "Well, at X we get this, what do YOU give at Southernjets?"

Lets get the interview, first...
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No... please don't be serious.
 
wheelsup said:
Comparing street hires to flow is extremely interesting. In it you see that the company hires 2.5x as many females OTS vs their flows which is more indicative of the makeup of females in pilot ranks I would think. Interestingly enough minorities only have a slight edge.
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Well from what I’ve seen on the line that’s exactly right. Of the civilian off the street hires I have flown with they have ALL been females/minorities. Not one straight white male. That’s not to say they don’t exist but personally I haven’t flown with one.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that as the flow throughs are such a homogenous group we most definitely need the diversity.
 
learhawkerbe400 said:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that as the flow throughs are such a homogenous group we most definitely need the diversity.
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What does that say about the hiring of minorities at the regionals? Nowadays, they’re so desperate for bodies they hire everyone, but back when the flows were hired?
 
Derg said:
It wouldn't be the first time.

My friend was at a table adjacent to his where the candidate brought his wife and she kept asking questions about vacation, medical and saying things like "Well, at X we get this, what do YOU give at Southernjets?"

Lets get the interview, first...
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Cptnchia said:
What does that say about the hiring of minorities at the regionals? Nowadays, they’re so desperate for bodies they hire everyone, but back when the flows were hired?
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Maybe it says the flows were the only ones dumb enough to spend 20 years at a regional lol.

The majority (not all) of them aren’t exactly what you’d call go-getters. They’re the guys who didn’t apply bc their logbooks were out of date, or they didn’t want to commute to ATL, or didn’t want to fly at night. Always some reason they chose not to move on.

It absolutely baffles me at the guys who spent forever at their regionals and never even applied anywhere else.
 
learhawkerbe400 said:
Maybe it says the flows were the only ones dumb enough to spend 20 years at a regional lol.

The majority (not all) of them aren’t exactly what you’d call go-getters. They’re the guys who didn’t apply bc their logbooks were out of date, or they didn’t want to commute to ATL, or didn’t want to fly at night. Always some reason they chose not to move on.

It absolutely baffles me at the guys who spent forever at their regionals and never even applied anywhere else.
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I can understand. Regionals used to be regionals with piston and turboprop equipment. Now regionals are 50 and 76 seater RJs flying just as comfortably as a narrowbody mainline jets on schedules that are comparable. The pay, retirement, and long term prospects are the three main differences. Keep in mind in the lost decade of 2001-2011, RJ Captains were making more than MANY narrowbody FOs at legacy/major carriers. I can easily see them saying "screw it, i'll just stay put and make $100k+ with weekends off and 17off+/month."


What I don't understand is the angst against these guys. If you're at mainline, who cares? And if you're not, then again who cares? Less competition for you...
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
I can understand. Regionals used to be regionals with piston and turboprop equipment. Now regionals are 50 and 76 seater RJs flying just as comfortably as a narrowbody mainline jets on schedules that are comparable. The pay, retirement, and long term prospects are the three main differences. Keep in mind in the lost decade of 2001-2011, RJ Captains were making more than MANY narrowbody FOs at legacy/major carriers. I can easily see them saying "screw it, i'll just stay put and make $100k+ with weekends off and 17off+/month."


What I don't understand is the angst against these guys. If you're at mainline, who cares? And if you're not, then again who cares? Less competition for you...
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Like I said most are fine. But the bad ones are awful. And I most definitely care bc I have to work with them all the time and they will represent a large percentage of our pilot group in a few years.

There should definitely be an interview required before you can flow. The guy I’m currently flying with is a prime example.
 
What’s the requirement to flow up? Is it just when your number comes up or do you have to have decent training records as well?
 
learhawkerbe400 said:
Like I said most are fine. But the bad ones are awful. And I most definitely care bc I have to work with them all the time and they will represent a large percentage of our pilot group in a few years.

There should definitely be an interview required before you can flow. The guy I’m currently flying with is a prime example.
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Oh ok, I see what you mean with a true flow-no interview. Yeah that's not good, IMO. There should still be an interview process. Some of the worse guys at the regional that I recall were the 'lifer' category.
 
learhawkerbe400 said:
Well from what I’ve seen on the line that’s exactly right. Of the civilian off the street hires I have flown with they have ALL been females/minorities. Not one straight white male. That’s not to say they don’t exist but personally I haven’t flown with one.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that as the flow throughs are such a homogenous group we most definitely need the diversity.
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Ummmm…. I'd love to know your method of determining this.
 
Derg said:
Ummmm…. I'd love to know your method of determining this.
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Determining what? I fly with new hires weekly and it always comes up where they came from. From there it’s pretty easy to tell if they’re a female/minority.

Like I said just making an observation.
 
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