ASA Interviews

[mkingmei]

I know many of them are coming up, when is yours?

 

[Afixedwing]

I've heard they're starting in March.

 

[BigDave]

I interview Feb 11 and 12 for ASA.

 

[bailout]

I know the first classes will be in mid March, so the interview processes should be picking up soon.

 

[FishandFly]

Bailout,

That is the first time I've seen an "I know" concerning when classes start. Congratulations.

 

[601Pilot]

ASA pool

Any way to start an ASA pool like they have for
SWA and FDX on this board?

 

[Long Time Gone]

I second that answer

Bailout,

That is the first time I've seen an "I know" concerning when classes start. Congratulations.

I walked in a resume and letter of recommendation for a good friend of mine and was told the same. Classes starting sometime in March, hopefully 10 at a time so they don't get overwhelmed and can continue all year. It'll also allow the allocations to even out as the CR7s arrive.

LTG

 

[Long Time Gone]

bump

 

[mkingmei]

thats all thats out there? there has got to be more!

 

[Long Time Gone]

That's all the info we have, so far.

We'll let you know more when available. No sense in starting more rumours.

LTG

 

[BAe3100FO]

Just had a pre-screening call this morning.

Wondering how long it usually takes for them to make a decision to bring you up for the two day interview.

 

[speedbird1974]

I sent my resume in the begining of Jan. Got the call a week later. Got the packet ten days after that. I sent it back in like two weeks. They call me for the interview yesterday, almost two weeks after I sent them my app. Interviewing the 2nd and 3rd of March. Any gouge on the interviews?

 

[ATR-DRIVR]

speedbird,
i noticed you say your current position is DC-8 fo. just wondering why you would want to come over to a regional position. No flame, just curious.

 

[crowbar]

speedbird,
i noticed you say your current position is DC-8 fo. just wondering why you would want to come over to a regional position. No flame, just curious.

Speedbird is a friend of mine, and the DC-8 is an ON-DEMAND FREIGHT DC-8, not a fun job and certainly no pretty F/A chicks to hang out with when the flight is done, gotta get some hot woman F/A's on these freighters.

Here is a quote from the cargo board an ondemand pilot posted.

Typical trip, just take this turn around to SDF, you will be home tonight. Check in after dropping at SDF, find out you are not coming home, you are going go to STL, They say we have trip out of there tommrow, like any one books 12 hours in advance, Get there, go the hotel at STL get there at 1230 AM CDT 0530Z, sleep all night, guess what, no trip the next day, stay up all day, go to bed at 2200L CDT, 0300Z, paged at 2300L CDT, 0400Z, pick up in TYS, get the cab go to the FBO at STL, the one man on duty at the FBO is fueling FedEx, UPS etc and not in the FBO. Guard at the TransState gate will not let you on the ramp unescorted, it is raining, he will not let us wait in the guard shack. Its August so the rain is kinda warm, 30 wet minutes later, the lone FBO guy escorts us to the airplane, runs off to fuel another airplane. Our Falcon is deck locked, we try to push the DA-20 out of the pack, but it won't budge, so we push a C-421 about 10 feet fwd and taxi out, get to TYS at 0300 EDT, 0700Z. Pick up 5 skips of brake rotors 4200#'s in steel tubs, bitch to load, CG is out of fwd CG, so load more fuel to bring the CG back in limits. Get to YIP at 0800L EDT, 1200Z, ready to go to bed, ask to be released, Told can not release you, you have 6 hours of duty left on you. We have one more trip a real easy one, DET to GYY, you guys should be back in a couple hours. Blast off for the .2 hr flight to DET, well one bin of transmission gears, turns into they are going to send 2 bins. The truck will be leaving the plant any minute, at 1030L EDT the bins show up it is 4200#'s instead of 2100#'s, we are 1200#'s over weight for the takeoff at DET. So start the engines, spend 30 minutes on the off duty runway burning off 1400#'s. fly to GYY, off load and home by 1300L 1700Z, as you are released you hear "We are really short of crews, you can plan on being back in here at 2300 L EDT 0300Z". Such is the on-demand flying business.

 

[XRMEFLYER]

ASA is not the place to go for hot F/As. There are exceptions of course, but the inflight recruiting people don't seem to share our interest in that particular quality. May I recommend Skywest for that, they are doing something right out there in that department!

AMF

 

[sleepy]

I finished-up recurrent training at ASA today. I spoke to some of the pilots we were interviewing this week. They were having them fly the CR7 simulator. They told us that we would be hiring 10 per month, with the first class on 3/15/04. They said that we will hire at least 120 this year.

BTW, there are a few of us ex-DC-8 guys here. The pay sucks, but it beats the heck out of Part 121 Non-Scheduled flying. At least for me it does.

 

[speedbird1974]

ATR-DRIVR,

The freight world is great, but only if you work for Fedx, UPS,... There are no benefits of any kind. You only get four days off. You live on a pager with a 20 minutes call out. There is no schedule, you dont know if you are going to Gary,IN or Amsterdam, NL. The trips run for 14-16 hours and sometimes longer than that, like starting at like midnight and ending at 1600. Normally you fly 1 hour for every 3-4 of duty. By then you have been up for 30 hours. The airplanes are a lot older than you. Im max out in pay, meaning that I wont get a pay raise in the next ten years+.
Now, the people I fly with are probably the best pilots that I will ever fly with. Everyone you work with is great. I have flown freight for 7 years and Im a little burned out. F/A? I havent even thought about it. Im sure is better to have them than not, but Im not doing this because of F/A's.
In other words, there is no quality of life in on demand freight.

 

[CF34-3B1]

ASA is not the place to go for hot F/As. There are exceptions of course, but the inflight recruiting people don't seem to share our interest in that particular quality.

Quite simple really, the people doing the FA hiring are for the most part, middle aged women.

Given a choice, would a frumpy middle aged woman hire a girl much younger and more attractive than herself, who would be a constant reminder of her middle aged frumpy-ness, or would she hire someone older, and even more frumpy, thus making her feel younger and less frumpy.

It's all about the frump factor.