Alaska

[Tonala2k]

I couldn't find any posts here. Does anyone know where I can get some info about competitive hiring standards?

 

[Z_Pilot]

Yeah...I am an Alaska wannabe as well...there has been no posts or threads on Alaska for a long time. I think (not sure) they are still interviewing for small monthly classes. I have seen them at 3 job fairs over the last 3 years and have a sliver bullet, additional LOR, and 3000 jet PIC. Still no call.

Z

 

[tico]

Yeah...I am an Alaska wannabe as well...there has been no posts or threads on Alaska for a long time. I think (not sure) they are still interviewing for small monthly classes. I have seen them at 3 job fairs over the last 3 years and have a sliver bullet, additional LOR, and 3000 jet PIC. Still no call.

Z

Well the way it works is as follows.. We have not hired in a long time, so everyone who is related to anyone in the "2 Floor Crew" or has a recomendation from one of them will be hired first. Along with those people will also be anyone recomended from one of the "Anglers". After that will be the sons and daughters of line pilots followed by anyone with a recomendation from a base chief pilot. The very last people to get hired will be a person with a LOR from a line pilot...It usually takes about three years to get to them.....So insert yourself into that mix and see where you fall.

Of course wth our new pay and benefits package it will take yyou 7-8 years to get back to where you were and upgrades are running about 10 years at which point you will get back to what a 10 year F/O used to make......

 

[Rhino]

info

The breakdown of folks in the October class was somthing like this:

4 Air Force C-17 with at least 3,000 hours
1 Marine FA-18 with 3,500 hours
1 Navy S-3B with 4,000 hours
2 Horizon with 6-10 years in the company
2 Skywest with 6-8 years in the company
2 Great Lakes with 6-8 years in the company
2 Mesa with 8 years in the company
1 Continental Express with 6 years in the company

some were from the pool, others recently hired.

A bid to fill 82 more positions will be released this month, with an effective date sometime this summer...

 

[Z_Pilot]

Rhino,
Thanks for the update.

2 Great Lakes with 6-8 years in the company

Holy Crap.

Z

 

[Halo_RJdriver]

not so great mistakes....

Rhino,
Thanks for the update.




Holy Crap.

Z

second the holy F*&king cow??? no so great mistake???????????

I am sure there were more civ/Mil types that interviewed. Just goes to show you even the ratshat get hired even if they fly for great fubar mistake.

YGBFSM unreal....................

 

[vetrider]

second the holy F*&king cow??? no so great mistake???????????

I am sure there were more civ/Mil types that interviewed. Just goes to show you even the ratshat get hired even if they fly for great fubar mistake.

YGBFSM unreal....................

Not unreal at all, first rate pilots can be found at every airline that gets nothing but scorn from the masses. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that it probably had more to do with the quality of the pilots in question than it did where they happened to work.

 

[Z_Pilot]

Just to clarify my "holy-crap" ....
I diddn't think that someone could "do-it" at Great Lakes for that long.
Kudos to them.

Z

 

[Going2Baja]

To confirm the above : a friend just got the call after 3 years of updating. She is 6 yrs Air Wisky.

8 yrs at G. Lakes - Ouch! Good on ya bro!

Baja.

BTW - What is "2 Floor Crew & Anglers?"

 

[BORAT]

The 2nd floor at Alaska is a magical place where some of the best (COUGH!) and brighest(COUGH!) gather to fly desks and lose all concept of the real-world.

If ever you visit, the dress code is khakis with a plad or checkered pattern shirt and some sort of boat shoes.

"Anglers" refer to the types that have lost touch with all things human because they work at HQ on Angle Lake.

 

[tico]

The 2nd floor at Alaska is a magical place where some of the best (COUGH!) and brighest(COUGH!) gather to fly desks and lose all concept of the real-world.

If ever you visit, the dress code is khakis with a plad or checkered pattern shirt and some sort of boat shoes.

"Anglers" refer to the types that have lost touch with all things human because they work at HQ on Angle Lake.

Thanks for clarifying my post .......When I see khakis or plaid I want to vomit....I love the latest from the brain drain up there.....We are removing the totally worthless and unecessary runway awareness and avoidance box because it does not work...sorry to all you F/O's who's money we wasted on this program but we will sureley come up with a replacement to line our pockets and steal more of your money........what a bunch of money grabbing self imported whack jobs those clowns are....ooops the rant alarm is going offf

 

[mach none]

My money went to Moose Munch for some of the employees.

 

[BORAT]

The Moose Turds tasted like, well, moose turds... I'm curious what the cost to ship that crap was...I think it came UPS, so it had to be more than the contents worth!