air inc

[Jet_Dreamer]

any one going to the lax air inc seminar april 11-13?

 

[fr8doggydog]

Yeah, Kit.

 

[Jet_Dreamer]

are you an air inc member. and if you know, what is the membership price and cost to get into the air inc show? are the airline recruiters at the show all three days? any help would be great.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

I hear there are tons of companies hiring right now, also know that the majors will have a HUGE pilot shortage just as soon as the war ends and oil prices drop......

better get out the grey suit and fire up the resumes!!!!

Get in now or miss out on a golden opportunity.

 

[Wiggums]

blue suit, don't forget the red tie...

 

[bobbysamd]

Kit seminars

Take it from someone who attended one ten years ago, save your money. I was looking for work and hoped to get something out of the Kit seminar I attended in LAX. It was a waste of time but for me getting to meet Irv Jasinski. All the resume tips and interview advice he and his lackeys were dishing out was stuff he has published in his magazines for years.

Save your money. Use it to buy the blue suit, white shirt and red tie, and use the rest to improve your quals and/or paying the printer for resumes and cover letters.

 

[Gear Down]

Save your money and don't bother attending. What a joke Air Inc offers. Do you really think some company is going to hire you because you attended? Or better yet, do you think a company will hire you on the spot? -Not.

Use the money and get a few good books and postage stamps for the resumes.

 

[sleepy]

Get ready for the recovery of 2003. 6,000 new pilot jobs! At least that is what the AirInc ad said.

 

[GCD]

I do know that you will not get an interview with NWAirlink Pinnacle unless you attend, or are a furloughed NWA pilot. Furloughed pilots from other airlines get priority over anyone off the street, but I think they still have to attend. Right now, Pinnacle wants to fill the classes with 75% furloughed pilots and 25% from the street.

 

[Cadillac]

Some friends and I attended the one in D.C. last October. I wrote a thread on it if you want to do a search.

If not, I'll sum it up here. The previous posts on this thread are correct in that you are most likely better off saving your money and networking. I was dissapointed at the small number of airlines that attended, and even more dissapointed when many of them attented only to tell everyone that they weren't hiring. Then it hit rock bottom when you waited in line for hours to have those few hiring airlines tell you that "yes you meet the minimums, but you will need more time/different time to be competitive."
Noone I know got a call. I think Colgan did some hiring, and Comair may have done a number of interviews. I will not attend another. It might be worth your while someday when the economy turns around and things improve overall.

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

I found it well worth my time and money and it directly resulted in an interview that led to a job offer...a good job offer. It certainly can't hurt to go. Would you not go out to a nightclub just because you heard all the babes were taken? One thing's for certain; Stay home and don't make an effort and you won't get jack.

 

[EternalOptimist]

Alaska Airlines does not give preferential hiring to furloughed pilots, in fact, it's quite the opposite. They want to be your first choice and they want to see that you made every effort to get hired by them. They attend Air, Inc. and they look very favorably on pilots who are willing to shell out the cash just to get a face-to-face meeting with one of the Chief Pilots. My husband went to the LAX Air, Inc. seminar in 2002 and met the LAX Regional Chief pilot at Alaska Airlines. A few months later he was called for an interview and is now in training at Alaska. He found out recently that Barry Rainey (sp?), the LAX Regional Cheif Pilot for Alaska Airlines, sent in a recommendation for him after meeting with him at Air, Inc. He didn't have an on-the-spot interview, but if you look at the pilot job listings at Alaskaair.com you will notice that they look very kindly on any conference attendees. I don't know about other airlines but if Alaska Airlines is your goal, go to the Air, Inc. seminars whenever possible and meet with the Alaska recruiters.

 

[B190Captain]

Get ready for the recovery of 2003. 6,000 new pilot jobs! At least that is what the AirInc ad said.

You have got to be kidding!!! They actually said that?!? Actually it could be true. Many vacancies at Iraqi Airways.

 

[FearlessFreep]

I attended the LAX job fair. It was similar to a FAPA job fair that I attended in the early ninties. There is some information that can be gleaned from the experience. If you do attend one be objective and understand that nothing may come of it. An acquaintance that I met there got an interview date with Comair; setup at the job fair, so yes there are some possibilities.

One thing that might surprise you all.
Kit started out the morning meeting with something that went like this "At this point in time the state of the industry su*ks"!

That has to be a first. He did suffix that statement by telling us that there were still companies hiring.

Good Luck To Us All!

 

[Publishers]

not exactly

Frankly, Alaska does not care whether you paid the money or not.

Airlines attend these for a number of reasons. First, it does not cost them anything to attend. They get to meet and talk with other recruiters, find our what is going on in other companies.

They have the advantage of being able to tell a bunch of applicants the story once rather than 80 times individually.

When they do need people, they can visit with them. Some of the regionals attended these to get and recruit people who came to see major carriers. Often there was as much action between the attenders and other attending airlines for job switches as there was for recruiting Kit's members.

Kit uses that allure to grab some serious money. AEPS frankly ran a much better airfair as far as the pilots were concerned. Cost less, ran longer with much more face time with recruiters. You could go meet Comair for $20 or $200 with Kit as example/