How long til XJT calls you back?

[donvag]

I applied onlinr on Sunday and I havent heard from them yet. How long does it take for them to get back?

 

[FlyChicaga]

Took just under two weeks for me. That was in the old format.

 

[SMOE]

I completed the online process last Monday. They called the next day asking for me to fax my resume which I did the same day. They called the next day after that for the phone interview while I was battening down the hatches for Ivan to hit. Gotta be some kind of record. The interview gouges I've read have said they got the call 1-4 weeks after you send the resume.

I'm heading to Houston on the 29th for the main interview...

 

[blee256]

Smoe,

what were your times like? TT and ME.


I applied a month ago when mins were 800/200 plus 40 actual. I didnt meet the actual requirements, so they replied saying sorry i dont meet the quals etc.
But just a few weeks ago they dropped it to 600/100/20actual. But they dont ask about actual this time around on the website. I am so bummed. Had I applied now, I am thinking I might have gotten a call. what a bummer.

-brian

 

[burrito]

xjet? are we talking about coex? flying an rj? 600 total? no wonder they run so many off the runway.

 

[Bluto]

Burrito, congratulations on a brilliant, well thought out, well-informed post.

 

[ASH]

about as well thought out as your vote in November.....

 

[pkjohnsonm]

XJET Reply

I applied online on the Sept. 7th and still haven't heard anything. The website said it would be 60-90 days before a recruiter called me back. Most gouges say 1-4 weeks for reply. No Idea whats going on with them!!!

 

[cynic]

Yeah, There's no relationship between what you pay for and what you get.

A Kia will last as long as a Toyota. The food at Burger King (all you'll be eating while you work for Xjext) is as good as the Outback stake house. And the pilots you get for 17,500 a year are the same quality folks you get for 3 times that wage.

The sad reality is that it doesn't matter.

Soon monkeys will take the job. They are in training now.

http://www.princessmonkey.com/monkeys/flying.html

http://www.richland2.org/rte/Images/teacher_pictures/Tucker and Monkey.jpg

 

[mmmdonut]

about as well thought out as your vote in November.....

An airline pilot voting for Bush is like a black man voting for David Duke.

 

[superrav]

yeah burrito our planes are running off the runway everyday....good informative post...

 

[ASH]

An airline pilot voting for Bush is like a black man voting for David Duke.

True if you vote soley on one aspect. Being an Airline Pilot, and the union issues that go along with it cannot be our primary consideration in our life. Our ability to strike should take a back seat to other highly pressing issues., IMHO

 

[vmcdemo]

The online app says you can expect a call 60-90days later - I applied 9/14 - don't really expect a phone call yet. However some people have said they were called - the next day, the next week, etc
There is a phone number on the app to call if in any doubt.

regards

 

[vc10]

True if you vote soley on one aspect. Being an Airline Pilot, and the union issues that go along with it cannot be our primary consideration in our life. Our ability to strike should take a back seat to other highly pressing issues., IMHO

Correct. If you care about democracy and liberty, you'll also vote against Bush. It's total b*llsh*t, not to mention an appalling violation of the fundamental principles of this country, that our government won't even show us the law that they claim that we violate.

An excess of secrecy

Source: The Cincinnati Post

Date: September 23, 2004

Edition Name: Final

Page: A16.0

A staple of fiction, like Franz Kafka's "The Trial," and a staple of real life

in the old Iron Curtain countries, was that the hapless citizen may have

violated a law but no one would tell him what the law was.

Thanks to the Bush administration, we now have that same chilling legal limbo

in this country.

According to the Associated Press, John Gilmore is a wealthy Libertarian who

believes, as libertarians are wont to do, that he should be able to move freely

about the country without being hassled by the government to identify himself.

Seeking to board a plane in Oakland, Calif., he was told by airport security

that he had to first show a government-issued photo ID. Gilmore declined. The

screener said he had to; it was the law. Gilmore said -- we're compressing here

-- fine, show me the law. The screener said: Can't do that, it's secret.

Gilmore was told he could board without the ID if he would consent to being

frisked and wanded. Gilmore said, show me that law. Can't do that, either; it's

secret. too.

When this happened again, Gilmore sued -- basically to get a look at the

federal airline security directives he was expected to obey without question.

After being initially dismissed by a district court, the case is now before the

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where, according to the Associated Press,

the Bush administration refuses to confirm or deny whether federal law requires

airline passengers to show a photo ID before boarding.

Indeed, the administration wanted the whole case sealed, meaning that, along

with Gilmore, the general public would be kept in the dark, too. The court

ordered the case opened to the public, but the administration has asked that

the proceedings be resealed.

Argued the government's lawyers, "In order to protect air travel security, a

federal statute and accompanying regulations prohibit defendants (that's the

government) from disclosing any such directive in open court, to plaintiff or

to plaintiff's counsel."

From air travel security we've taken wing into the realm of the bizarre. And

you, gentle reader, might soon have a direct stake in this.

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered the airlines to turn over the

names of every person who flew in June -- including address, phone number,

method of payment, meal preference, traveling companion and anything else the

airline knows. The idea is to test a massive new screening system.

The current system is no confidence-builder; it has marked for "no-fly"

treatment Sen. Ted Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat, and Rep. John Lewis,

the Georgia Democrat, and the other day it nabbed Yusuf Islam, the pop singer

formerly known as Cat Stevens, but only after he had boarded a plane from

London and was flying toward Washington, D.C.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a long flight. Or better yet, take

the car.

 

[Bluto]

If you agree or disagree with my avatar choice, please feel free to PM me, or even start a thread in the non-aviation related section. May I suggest some inflammatory titles:
"Bluto hates democracy"
"Bluto hates freedom"
"Bluto supports terrorists"
"Bluto votes like a girl"...or whatever you like. But please, keep it over there. There's a reason I am in favor of the non-aviation related section, and a reason I don't read it anymore. If you disagree with the text of my posts, please feel free to do so in as vile, insulting a manner as you see fit.
I am not a liberal. If you want to know why I am voting the way I am, please feel free to pm me. I'll be happy to explain my reasoning. But not here.

 

[Captain X]

There's a reason I am in favor of the non-aviation related section, and a reason I don't read it anymore.

So are you saying that your opinions are absolutely, without question, correct and you are afraid that any debate could discount them?

 

[Bluto]

Absolutely not. In fact, I am constantly evaluating my feelings on political issues and candidates. I choose not to take part in political discussions anymore because it is counterproductive. While I learned a great deal about the candidates, it didn't change the way I felt about them. Neither did arguing about it change anyone else's views. I am always open to opposing viewpoints, however, I choose not to get involved in the discussion when a mature, intellectual tone cannot be maintained. I don't come to this forum to be enlightened politically, spiritually, or socially. I'm here to discuss aviation.

 

[burrito]

Now, why don't we get back to the real point of this post? Superrav, you long time, experienced xjet pilot, ask around how many you guys have run off. I'm pretty sure that syracuse, houston , cleveland and some place in arkansas have some of your pieces lying around there. That's just in the last year and a half. And Syracuse happened on a taxiway. I heard the chief pilots really liked it when they found out the crew tried to reverse out of the snow filled culvert and even asked to have a tug hooked up to push them out of the same snow filled culvert. Heard that from a cle ass. chief.

I'm not saying that other airlines are perfect, I'm just commenting that 600 hour pilots are a higher risk in the cockpit than someone more experienced. I guess it's ok to lower the mins there though 'cause, since there haven't been all that many upgrades in the last few years, you'll be flying with captains who've all been there for a loooong time.

 

[contract2002]

I'm not saying that other airlines are perfect, I'm just commenting that 600 hour pilots are a higher risk in the cockpit than someone more experienced.

Wow, I didn't know that we had an actuary on the boards. Why are you wasting your time in the cockpit? You could be earning a much better living in risk analysis.

feeeeeel the sarcasm.

You should change your name to burro, cuz you're an even BIGGER a$$ than your screen name implies.

 

[ATRCA]

Come on Contract,

Cut this guy a break. He's bitter, its understandable considering all the time and money he's spent learning to fly; finally got a "Big Time" airline job and he's flyin a KingAir.


This should be fun!