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JECKEL

JECKEL

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Just got a call for a US Air interview and I have no clue what to expect or what the format is.

Does anyone have the current gouge on the US Air interview or know what I can expect?

Thanks
 
Get to training center and are met by a captain who brings you on a tour of the training center and talks to you for maybe 30 mins. Then drops you off outside some conference rooms and takes your logbooks. You either do the hr or the tech interview first. HR is two hr people and one chief pilot just getting to know you questions and tmaat. Story, conflict and resolution type stuff. That lasts about 40 mins. They take turns asking you questions from a book and then feverishly write as you're spitting out your story. Next is the tech interview two pilots one hr person. Tech questions super easy and straight forward, airlinepilotcentral.com has the gouge. Then more tmaat questions. Same thing story , conflict, resolution stuff. Everyone was overly polite and nice, not an intimidating process.
 
Best of Luck. Where are you going to be interviewing? Regardless of what you read here, things will finish up in the next year or so. Let us know how it went!
 
dollacrackho's description was pretty much how it was when I did it over three years ago. Back then, the unofficial word was that you're 90% hired if you've made it to the interview so the 10% is all yours. Good luck!!
 
dirkdigler said:
dollacrackho's description was pretty much how it was when I did it over three years ago. Back then, the unofficial word was that you're 90% hired if you've made it to the interview so the 10% is all yours. Good luck!!
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That's one nice thing compared to other carriers. They don't interview 200 people for 30 positions and waste a lot of peoples time. They're also good about getting back to you quickly. At least they used to be.
 
Emerald Coast Consulting

Top notch.
 
dirkdigler said:
dollacrackho's description was pretty much how it was when I did it over three years ago. Back then, the unofficial word was that you're 90% hired if you've made it to the interview so the 10% is all yours. Good luck!!
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Glad to hear they are still doing it that way.

A smile, firm hand shake, and politeness puts you above the bottom 10% easy as eating cake. A little book knowledge and TMAT stories that don't drone past 59 seconds keeps you in the green.

Our HR folks and the training department are some of the best things about the company.
 
dirkdigler said:
dollacrackho's description was pretty much how it was when I did it over three years ago. Back then, the unofficial word was that you're 90% hired if you've made it to the interview so the 10% is all yours. Good luck!!
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If you're dumb enough to show up for the interview, You're 90% hired!
 
Which fleets are being offered to newhires? Still E190 and 737-300/400? What about pilot bases (which are most likely)?
 
johnsonrod said:
Which fleets are being offered to newhires? Still E190 and 737-300/400? What about pilot bases (which are most likely)?
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Off the top of my head - the last bid (for March 2012) had open positions after the bid closed for:

PHL,CLT,DCA - Airbus and 737

PHL - E190
 
JECKEL said:
Just got a call for a US Air interview and I have no clue what to expect or what the format is.

Does anyone have the current gouge on the US Air interview or know what I can expect?

Thanks
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It doesn't matter to me, but to be on the safe side, remember it's US Airways not US Air. Just don't slip up and say American:) Good luck.
 
There is no such thing as ex-piedmont. Only Marines are more taken aback by such careless uses of the "ex" prefix. Ex-Marine, perish the thought!

They are former Piedmont birds. About 47 left to be replaced 1for1 with new 321s.
 
Turtle21 said:
There is no such thing as ex-piedmont. Only Marines are more taken aback by such careless uses of the "ex" prefix. Ex-Marine, perish the thought!

They are former Piedmont birds. About 47 left to be replaced 1for1 with new 321s.
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No offense intended. Does that mean you're former Piedmont? Heard it was, no slash that, I mean is a great airline. I've heard it compared to Alaska the same way I hear PSA compared to Southwest. US had lots of injections of good culture, where the h e double hockey sticks did it go? Bad management?
 
Hpilot said:
No offense intended. Does that mean you're former Piedmont? Heard it was, no slash that, I mean is a great airline. I've heard it compared to Alaska the same way I hear PSA compared to Southwest. US had lots of injections of good culture, where the h e double hockey sticks did it go? Bad management?
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No offense taken. The Piedmont spirit lives in spite of managements best efforts!
 
darn, would have been a great birthday present to get a call from usair for an interview. I'm going to the open house on the 14th, I hope I get lucky.
 
LearLove said:
Off the top of my head - the last bid (for March 2012) had open positions after the bid closed for:

PHL,CLT,DCA - Airbus and 737

PHL - E190
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Two questions that have probably already been answered many times:

1. What is the seat lock timing? 3 years?

2. Does the E190 FO position pay the same as the A319/737 FO position for newhires?

Wow, I can't believe all of the ex-America West 737s are gone!!!! I remember seeing those airplanes while growing up on the Left Coast. Sad day............ :bawling::crying::rolleyes:
 
johnsonrod said:
Two questions that have probably already been answered many times:

1. What is the seat lock timing? 3 years?

2. Does the E190 FO position pay the same as the A319/737 FO position for newhires?

Wow, I can't believe all of the ex-America West 737s are gone!!!! I remember seeing those airplanes while growing up on the Left Coast. Sad day............ :bawling::crying::rolleyes:
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seat lock on the 190 is one year, all other planes is 18 months.

190 pays 41.22/hr, all other planes 3,000 per month
 
johnsonrod said:
Two questions that have probably already been answered many times:

1. What is the seat lock timing? 3 years?

2. Does the E190 FO position pay the same as the A319/737 FO position for newhires?

Wow, I can't believe all of the ex-America West 737s are gone!!!! I remember seeing those airplanes while growing up on the Left Coast. Sad day............ :bawling::crying::rolleyes:
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1. I don't know. If someone doesn't answer it here, I'll ask another employee.

2. I'm not on the east, but I believe APC is correct, it's $3000 a month for all three aircraft.

Yep, I started on the 737-200. Hard to believe all the 300s are now gone. In flight school my goal was to fly a 737 for a major. A pilot friend who retired flying captain for a major on an international route, said his best days were flying the 737, up and down the west coast. Or was it east coast? Oh well my memory must be going. We're now the world's largest Airbus operator, just took the 7000th airplane, an A321. The A321 are replacing the 737s one for one.
 
The seat lock can be released if the company needs the positions on other aircraft. I don't think you incur the seat lock if you're displaced off a piece of equipment either.
 

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