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Importance of Flight Currency when Searching for a Job

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Trogdor

Burninating the Peasants
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How important is being current in an aircraft when applying for a job at a Major?

Hypothetical situation: Someone who has respectable flight experience leaves his job as a regional captain for a non-flying job to weather the storm of the recession at a place with better pay, schedule, QOL, etc. Then 2013, or whenever, rolls around and the majors are all hiring again. After being out of the flight deck for 2-3 years, would it be possible to be hired at a major? What are your thoughts?
 
Personally, I don't think you'd be able to compete with guys that are "out there" flying on a regular basis.

But hell, I've seen F-teen guys with 1600tt get hired and t-prop grinders with 10,000's hours get turned down.

Gup
 
How important is being current in an aircraft when applying for a job at a Major?
It's HUGE, but also taken in context.

If you are furloughed or your employer goes BK, the hiring airline will typically (but not always) take your circumstances into consideration if you can make it past the pre-screening to an actual interview.

If you voluntarily remove yourself from the cockpit the burden is upon you to explain why you are not current. Have you noticed how many major airline applications specially ask for flight time in the past 6 (or 12) months? Hint: they would not ask if they were not interested in the answer.
 
Ditto the above.

Unless you had a major life issue you had to take care of (dying family member) and you exceeded your FMLA timeline and had to resign for family reasons, I can't think of a GOOD reason you'd leave a CAPTAIN job at a regional.

The question they're thinking is, "Well, if things get rough here, he's just going to bail on us, too, right?" And you'd have to say that's a fair assessment of them to make.

If you were an F/O, you *MIGHT* be able to make that argument but, again, they're going to ask what happens if you decide to do that again with them? An airline wants to hire you and never hear your name again. Period. You come to work, you fly, you go home. You're an employee number, and their job is to hire an employee number who will be a productive, quiet, happy employee for the rest of your time there.

If they have ANY qualms that you'll be anything BUT that, they'll move on to the next person, and you'll likely only find yourself able to get a job flying freight or MAYBE a regional at the END of the next hiring curve, when they're desperate for experience in the seat.

Leaving flying for any reason is very dubiously viewed, unless you're furloughed and couldn't find anything else.

Best of luck,,,
 
An airline wants to hire you and never hear your name again. Period. You come to work, you fly, you go home. You're an employee number, and their job is to hire an employee number who will be a productive, quiet, happy employee for the rest of your time there.

Sad but very true! Just an employee number to the pukes in management. Just an employee number who may take command of a 700,000 lb aircraft and all they want from us is to sit there and be quiet! A shut up and do what you're told employee who is not allowed to think for themselves, but merely someone who can only regurgitate the procedures in the companies flight manual and operations manual. BTW, I wonder what would have become of Sully and the rest of them if all he was able to do was what is "allowed" in the manuals. The mindless robots management wants today. The days of hiring people they wanted to welcome as a vital part of the operation are gone. That is set aside for upper management pukes and executives.
 
So is this why when someone resigns for personal reasons they are usually 86'ed by the airline they were working for?? They feel you did it once you will do it again?? I have found that there is NO excuse good enough for a company to consider you again in the future.. even if its been 10 years!..

The practice seems arcaine(sp?) to me and unreasonable consider the myriad of things thsat can happen to somone over their working life.. Assuming the person was in good standing and had a good and valid reason to leave of course..
 
You're a pilot- make your living flying airplanes. Or don't and move on.
 
Why was this thread moved? A regional captain wants to take a break
from aviation and later apply to majors, and somehow this ends up in "general aviation information?"
 
If you have a job in this market (especially PIC) and you leave it to pursue a non-flying job then you definitely aren't doing yourself a favor in making a step up the ladder.
 
I moved it because it's talking about job seeking and related issues. It doesn't have anything to do directly with any major airline or any regional airline per se.

I left it in the Majors forum for 24 hours to get some exposure, then moved it.

That's the forum rules. I don't make them, I just enforce them.
 

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