I could use some advice and/or help please

JonMyersAviate said:
I am starting to see that. My brother flys for United so I tried to use the nepotism card this last round of hiring but that did not go anywhere.
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There are over ten thousand pilots at each major. Unless he is one of the select few that management or the dispatch group knows and likes, it wont make a difference for dispatch hiring. Plus every major requires either previous dispatch experience or internal experience regardless of who you know.
 
How much benefit is there to working in the airline industry in a non-dispatch/load planning position and then applying for dispatch jobs? My son just got his dispatch license but he's applying for GO jobs as well to at least get into the industry. Helpful? Waste of time? Would it be helpful for jobs outside of the company he's working at as a Ground Ops guy or mostly just for that company?
 
BunkerF16 said:
How much benefit is there to working in the airline industry in a non-dispatch/load planning position and then applying for dispatch jobs? My son just got his dispatch license but he's applying for GO jobs as well to at least get into the industry. Helpful? Waste of time? Would it be helpful for jobs outside of the company he's working at as a Ground Ops guy or mostly just for that company?
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For a first dispatch job at a regional it is very helpful to have aviation experience in any capacity. Definitely not a waste of time. Like others have said, at a major, or even most ULCCs (Frontier, etc), you are going to need dispatch experience or be an internal candidate.
 
LastMinuteAirline said:
For a first dispatch job at a regional it is very helpful to have aviation experience in any capacity. Definitely not a waste of time. Like others have said, at a major, or even most ULCCs (Frontier, etc), you are going to need dispatch experience or be an internal candidate.
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I am not a part of the hiring process, so I can't tell you how that part goes. I do think that anything that makes you stand out
in a positive manner is helpful.

Once you get hired on though, I think that airlines operation experience or really any other part of the airline is so helpful in seeing the big picture and how things work together. I think it's a real benefit and it makes you a better dispatcher. It also helps with DRM when you have dispatchers from various former airline jobs. You can help each other understand things that you may not have encountered before.

If I were part of the hiring process, I would definitely be looking for dispatchers with those experiences.
 
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