AirTran Rejection - will it affect SWA app

[TurboCheez]

Earlier this year I helped a friend who got an interview with AirTran, but she was subsequently turned down by them. Does anyone know if that will affect her chances with Southwest.

Is she automatically out of the running at SWA because of the AirTran rejection?

TC

 

[ngsp]

i have a good friend who was shot down twice by airtran and got hired by southwest on the first try, but that was 3 years ago.

 

[Max Powers]

Shouldn't affect your friend I highly doubt the people depts. will be sharing records in such a way.

Besides the last 7 years AirTran has had a higher standard for interview and hiring selection. SWA required a 737 type which can costs upwards of 10k just for the interview/job. Finding people willing to pay this expense just for the shot at an interview really degraded the level of talent they viewed.

 

[GuppyWN]

Max,

You may be right but that's a big part of why we dropped the type before interview several years back - like 10. Heck you're even gonna get hired without one!

Gup

 

[Max Powers]

Max,

You may be right but that's a big part of why we dropped the type before interview several years back - like 10. Heck you're even gonna get hired without one!

Gup

I throw the hand grenade in......and all I get is a a polite response like that from the infamous "guppy". I must be losing my touch. Perhaps things won't get too crazy with this whole SLI thing after all. :beer:

 

[GuppyWN]

I'll buy.

Gup

 

[RedDogC130]

I got turned down by airtran in 2002....

 

[spciii]

I once asked a Tranny for hand relief, but he turned me down. Been with SWA for 3 years now.

 

[Ty Webb]

I got turned down by MIDEX and got hired at AirTran shortly thereafter. Worked out pretty well.

 

[dicko]

Earlier this year I helped a friend who got an interview with AirTran, but she was subsequently turned down by them. Does anyone know if that will affect her chances with Southwest.

Is she automatically out of the running at SWA because of the AirTran rejection?

TC

Did your "friend" get turned down at AirTran before or after you did this ?:

"AirTran Recruiter Meeting
I have arranged a meeting (or phone meeting) with Stephanie Grantham who hires pilots at AirTran. I am helping out a friend who has a kid who wants to work for them. Any AirTran pilot on this board who might PM me."

 

[ivauir]

Besides the last 7 years AirTran has had a higher standard for interview and hiring selection..

Max,

Your SWA hate needs to end and you need to get on board with the real world.

Out PIC requirement is double yours, and there is NO shortage of qualified candidates. Not to be mean about it, but we were getting plenty of new hires from AAI. Not disparaging anyone, it is what it is.

In answer to the original poster; SWA and AAI remain independent companies. SWA is very protective of its culture and that begins with the hiring process, I doubt anything from the AAI process will remain.

It is still a great idea to try and assess why she didn't get hired. It could be a quirk of the AAI hiring process, or it could be an indication of a larger problem. We've all been there, it can be tough to make adjustments without beating yourself up, but that is what you need to do.

Best of luck!

Ivauir

 

[TurboCheez]

Did your "friend" get turned down at AirTran before or after you did this ?:

"AirTran Recruiter Meeting
I have arranged a meeting (or phone meeting) with Stephanie Grantham who hires pilots at AirTran. I am helping out a friend who has a kid who wants to work for them. Any AirTran pilot on this board who might PM me."

She got turned down after an interview with one of the AirTran reps in Vegas, or maybe after Vegas. Not sure.

 

[dicko]

She got turned down after an interview with one of the AirTran reps in Vegas, or maybe after Vegas. Not sure.

Read the question again.

 

[Quiet Flight]

Lets cut to the chase: I she hot or not? This WILL have a HUGE effect on her chances.

 

[jonjuan]

Lets cut to the chase: I she hot or not? This WILL have a HUGE effect on her chances.

And if she is she can forget her chances at wn.

 

[71driver]

Here's one for ya;

Guy I know gets hired buy AA in the early 80's, he leaves cause he doesn't want to work for AA. Gets a job with Ozark Airlines right after leaving AA. Then TWA buys Ozark in 1986. Then guess who shows up to buy TWA in 2001, yeah you betcha AA. Now he's back to the Airline he didn't want to work for in the first place!!

We're all just pawns in the crazy business.

 

[jonjuan]

Here's one for ya;

Guy I know gets hired buy AA in the early 80's, he leaves cause he doesn't want to work for AA. Gets a job with Ozark Airlines right after leaving AA. Then TWA buys Ozark in 1986. Then guess who shows up to buy TWA in 2001, yeah you betcha AA. Now he's back to the Airline he didn't want to work for in the first place!!

We're all just pawns in the crazy business.

And the reason for your little story is????

 

[Quiet Flight]

And if she is she can forget her chances at wn.

Exactly!!!