ASA Interviews

[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.