Airline pilot w/ suspended license?

[Capt Big Daddy]

Any of you guys out there ever had your driver's license suspended or know someone who did and still got a 121 airline job? Any issues during interview? No DUI invloved.
Thanks.

 

[Daytonaflyer]

No, but I know a guy who had 45 speeding tickets and still works for Jet Blue, and another guy who had 19 speeding tickets and was arrested for them and flies for Southwest.

 

[mynameisjim]

No, but I know a guy who had 45 speeding tickets and still works for Jet Blue, and another guy who had 19 speeding tickets and was arrested for them and flies for Southwest.

However, 'Still works for' and 'Got a job with' are totally different scenarios.

 

[say again]

Mine was suspended for insurance lap. Took the car of the road, never handed in the plates or cancelled the insurance. I haven't had a problem getting a job anywhere.

 

[Capt Big Daddy]

No, but I know a guy who had 45 speeding tickets and still works for Jet Blue, and another guy who had 19 speeding tickets and was arrested for them and flies for Southwest.

Did the JB guy have those tickets before he got the job? Compared to him, I guess I have nothing to worry about. :-D

 

[Daytonaflyer]

Yes, he had them before he got the JB job. Both those guys had the tickets before getting their jobs.
There's no easy way to explain yourself out of things like that; if they ask, just fess up to them, explain how you've learned your lesson, and try to focus on your good points.
Nobody can predict how every interview board will react to something like that.

Actually, now that I think about it, the guy who got hired at SWA did have his license suspended once. He thought he had his tickets taken care of, then he moved a couple times for work, and never got the notice that his ticket was delinquent. The state suspended his driver's license and he never got the letter.
A few months later he was pulled over for speeding in FL and was arrested for driving with a suspended license he never even knew he had.
A few years later he interviewed at SWA and got the job the first time.

 

[ultrarunner]

I guess it's easy to miss paying one off if you've got 19 of 'em. WOW!

I'd guess he lives in a state that doesn't require liability, OR he's paying 5 figures a year for it.

Good think SWA provides him with that kind of disposable income ;-)

 

[jmreii]

Any of you guys out there ever had your driver's license suspended or know someone who did and still got a 121 airline job? Any issues during interview? No DUI invloved.
Thanks.

FAA takes a dim view of pilots that do not report on their medical applications, driver license actions regardless of whether it involved alcohol or not. No second chances.

 

[Capt Big Daddy]

Thanks guys.

 

[DASHDRIVER]

I had a drivers license suspended. Still got called for Jet Blue, and Midwest interviews. I didn't have refenances at either one and they both offered class dates. Midwest did give me a pretty thorough ringing about it. But I was just honest, said I screwed up and told the story as it happened. It must of worked.

DD