Is XO really hiring?

[Sparse]

This showed up on indeed.com today.


Pilots - U.S.A. - new
XOJET - United States
XOJET, Inc is currently hiring qualified pilots to join our team of professionals who are home based—positive space commutes on your first and last day of work....
2 days ago - save job - email - more...

 

[CALRepublic]

Why are you so surprised that they're hiring?

They started late, when things had already settled down, and people knew what the market was going to look like, then they grew modestly. And unlike the others, when things went to s***t 4 years ago, they didn't have a huge surplus of pilots and airplanes.

Good management, but better timing

 

[propsarebest]

I think the ocean of resumes has shrunk. We had 12K resumes on file at one time.

 

[propsarebest]

If you call doubling the fleet in 15 months growing modestly, then OK.

Not too many new airplanes slated for delivery this year.

 

[NJAowner]

and everyone I know who has flown XOJet lately (including me), used to use NJ for that same long flight. I believe most of the XOJet growth has come at the expense of NJ. I do not think there are many new entrants in the private jet market at that level.

 

[Xcorporate]

Well the N.Y. sales guru from Netjets is at XO now. Wouldn't be surprised if he didn't take a list of contacts with him, also at the expense of Netjets.

 

[CALRepublic]

It has nothing to do with better service, better sales people, etc... XoJet is cheaper, that's all there is to it.

I flew with a pilot, his daughter works for Netjets as a sales rep. She told him "Dad I can't compete with Xojet, they're so much cheaper". She says she lost 5 perspective clients to them in November.

I hope Xojet does not start a race to the bottom (financially speaking)

 

[brokeflyer]

i sure wouldnt look at price if buying a frac share. id want the most expensive. you get what you pay for. Why do wealthy people buy a $100,000 rolls royce when a Chrysler 300 does the same job?

 

[CFIIer]

i sure wouldnt look at price if buying a frac share. id want the most expensive. you get what you pay for. Why do wealthy people buy a $100,000 rolls royce when a Chrysler 300 does the same job?

Most rich people are some of the biggest penny-pinchers out there. Its only the people that didn't really work hard for it (most athletes and movie stars), that spend it like its nothing. If I was a rich guy looking for a private jet to take me somewhere, I'd be looking for the company that cost the least, without having a reputation for being unsafe. The days of people paying for something just because of its name, are starting to fizzle.

 

[brokeflyer]

it seems i wasnt clear. Would you shop around then for cheapest heart surgeon?

 

[jonjuan]

i sure wouldnt look at price if buying a frac share. id want the most expensive. you get what you pay for. Why do wealthy people buy a $100,000 rolls royce when a Chrysler 300 does the same job?

Good thing you'll never have that problem. Have fun shopping for dentucream at Walmart

 

[jonjuan]

It has nothing to do with better service, better sales people, etc... XoJet is cheaper, that's all there is to it.

I flew with a pilot, his daughter works for Netjets as a sales rep. She told him "Dad I can't compete with Xojet, they're so much cheaper". She says she lost 5 perspective clients to them in November.

Maybe she needs bigger boobs!

 

[t-bone]

i sure wouldnt look at price if buying a frac share. id want the most expensive. you get what you pay for. Why do wealthy people buy a $100,000 rolls royce when a Chrysler 300 does the same job?

If you are going to make that comparison, then you need to compare corporate business jet travel to Southwest, Amtrak and Greyhound. They'll all get you where you need to go, so why pay the money to fly private? Ridiculous comparison if you ask me.

If Rolls Royce of Beverly Hills is charging $100k more than Rolls Royce of Newport Beach, do you think our clients are going to buy the most expensive car?

Perhaps it's time to stop looking at XOJET as cheap and start looking at NetJets as over-inflated. When we're able to charge an extra $4000 to guarantee a Challenger on a trans-con, or $8500/hour with a 2 hour MINIMUM, I'd hardly say we're the cheapest.

And don't bother with the safety aspect when XO ferried a 300 from Denver to IAD because I called in fatigued and couldn't/wouldn't fly the next days trip.

 

[brokeflyer]

it has nothing to do with the plane. Netjets has better pilots.

















wink

 

[t-bone]

it has nothing to do with the plane. Netjets has better pilots.

















wink

Oh yeah...I forgot. Disregard my previous statements.

 

[duc driver]

My app has been on file since 07, maybe I'll get a call at some point.

 

[t-bone]

My app has been on file since 07, maybe I'll get a call at some point.

Good luck. I'm sure you're aware this is not the same company it was in 2007.

 

[duc driver]

t-bone, to be honest I have not been keeping up on xojet for the last 2 years. I finally upgraded at XJT and haven't been looking around too much. Are you still enjoying working there?

 

[Sparse]

Still no answer. I have a friend that was hired this past summer, gave notice and quit his job to only find out his class was cancelled. So is XO hiring. I don't want to work there I just am asking the question.

 

[Sparse]

Why are you so surprised that they're hiring?

They started late, when things had already settled down, and people knew what the market was going to look like, then they grew modestly. And unlike the others, when things went to s***t 4 years ago, they didn't have a huge surplus of pilots and airplanes.

Good management, but better timing

No surprise either way. I just asked a question.