Alaska Airlines increases hiring minimums.

[av8instyle]

...and another thing...since the Kashhole I have not had ONE person ask me for any help getting on at Alaska. What does that tell you? Don't answer that. I already know what it tells you. My point is that the pool of good candidates shrunk significantly after the cut and these new mins won't help.

 

[HA25]

Honesty, do you HAVE to have a recommendation to get on at Alaska? I've heard that the times are a secondary issue to knowing someone.

 

[av8instyle]

Honesty, do you HAVE to have a recommendation to get on at Alaska? I've heard that the times are a secondary issue to knowing someone.

Not 100% on this but I think the majority still walk in with either a LOR or a handshake from the CP at OBAP/WIA/Kit Darby, etc.

 

[thunderworm]

of course it helps to know someone as it does in every job, but i know that knocking the company you are applying to dosen't help much either. i agree that time is not the only thing a company should look at. there should be others ways to get noticed. right now it seems to be internal recs. as a group we should come up with other ways to get noticed. until then we must all play the game in order to win.

 

['72Gremlin]

..., we've had 6 resignations in 6 weeks so maybe ...

Haven't heard about this. Can you elaborate?

 

[capt. megadeth]

I wouldn't think anyone (military or not) would get hired with less than 3000
hours anyways.

 

[GuppyWN]

Maybe I'm missing the point but if I had the choice between a fighter dude that spent 15 years getting 3k hours in a purely tactical environment vs. a civilian/tanker dude that did it in 5 in an operational environment I'd rather have the recency and abundance of quality time.

Call me crazy.

Gup

 

[Flybet3]

Those mins are very reasonable...but then again, we've had 6 resignations in 6 weeks so maybe they should look at something else other than mins. They're far to arrogant for that though.

Wait, wait, wait! You had 6 resignations at ALASKA AIRLINES?! did I read this right?!

 

[SIR MILO]

Doesn't almost running out of fuel and landing with 6 gallons of gas, make a regular operational day in the military.
I think if you can pull that off and not have the superior training of a military pilot that makes you pretty good.
Anyways why would any of you military guys want to work at such a puny little place like Alaska, we all know your far better then that...

 

[Draginass]

Aren't the unwritten "competitive" mins way above 3000TT anyway. There's lots of guys out on the street from just American that have a ton part 121 and military experience and tons of time in civil airliners. I don't think Alaska is worried about the experience pool.