Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
Go walk through any airport. Count the number of "diverse" pilots you see. If that's the reason you can't get hired, you absolutely suck at life and should give up now.
Hawaiian Window Opening (Feb 8th)
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Go walk through any airport. Count the number of "diverse" pilots you see. If that's the reason you can't get hired, you absolutely suck at life and should give up now.
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
I flew with a guy at ASA with ZERO personality. His wife got hired at Delta. Instead of being happy for her, bidding max days off and enjoying life, he absolutely thought it was because she's a woman and it absolutely tore him up.
ppragman
FLIPY FLAPS!
This bums me out - I'd be lying if I hadn't been jealous of successful friends...but jesus, your wife? If my wife made Delta money, I'd do bid the least flying possible or fly medevac and play with my kids as much as possible...
Screaming_Emu
Joe Conventional
So much. There wouldn't be anyone on earth happier for her than me.
Really most of the women I know that have moved on to the bigs have worked 3 times as hard to make it happen. Union reps, actual work at WIA (vs just wearing pants and standing in line with a resume), yet they still found time to have lives outside of work and be great people.
A lot of them feel like they gave something to prove. Judging by what I hear from peers in the industry, they still do. And that's sad.
tattooguy21
Well-Known Member
And NOW I know. Thank you for stopping me before I started
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Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Exactly. No one tells you. But apparently all those big boxes you can type stuff in for educational achievements and for employment awards/achievements. This is the area in airlineapps you can expand and write about your awards/achievements/paint your picture. And I heard from one person who volunteers for an airline on their hiring team that if you these boxes are relatively empty, you're not trying hard enough.
Minimum 87 pages or you're doing it wrong. Give me $5000 and I'll explain.
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
One of our guys interviewed and was told they wished he has jet time. Is that something they look for?
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
No idea. They used to take guys with just Caravan or King Air time but I think that's changed now.
nsmith2224
Well-Known Member
They do prefer all weather mainland jet time. However that being said they hire all across the board. Interview is big on personality and plenty have been hired with zero ties and connections to the islands. Plenty have been hired with just turboprop time recently as well. That being said they do prefer jet time from the mainland. Hope this helps answer your question.
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
That does help. Thank you.
ppragman
FLIPY FLAPS!
It's legit the "best job" in the industry that I can think of, Alec.
The pay is (or at least was - I don't know if they fixed that or not) abysmal on year one, but after that it's good. You can fly a jet and be home every night. The product is awesome, the islands are amazing, and from the outside looking in the culture seems cool.
I'd spend summers in AK and winters in HI. If you get bored with inter-island you can go international. Basically it reminds me of how Alaska seemed when I was a kid.
The pay is (or at least was - I don't know if they fixed that or not) abysmal on year one, but after that it's good. You can fly a jet and be home every night. The product is awesome, the islands are amazing, and from the outside looking in the culture seems cool.
I'd spend summers in AK and winters in HI. If you get bored with inter-island you can go international. Basically it reminds me of how Alaska seemed when I was a kid.
wheelsup
Well-Known Member
Those numbers are pretty good, I'm surprised only 1000 people applied that seems really low. But a 22% chance of getting an interview? Wow that is higher than I thought. At AA it's ridiculously low because of all the flow thrus.
z987k
Well-Known Member
Doesn't look like a pilot shortage there.
I guess when pay and bennies are adequate people want to work for you. Weird.
Skåning
Well-Known Member
patthepilot
Well-Known Member
It shows their minimum is 2000 tt hours. How flexible is that?
grkero
fer yer health
I know guys hired with 4,000 to 14,000 hours. So... pretty flexible.
desertdog71
Girthy Member
Thanks, I shot coffee out my nose.
RamRise
Well-Known Member
If you have connections to the islands, aka born and raised, they may consider you in the 2.5-3k range , or atleast that's what I've been told.
