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Prop Trash

Prop Trash

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Someone told me that the application window opens at 12 : 01 CDT on the 16th. No luck with the link yet. Anyone having luck? Here's what it still says:
United is preparing to commence pilot hiring later this year. If you are interested in becoming a United pilot, please continue to check this page for more information.
 
Nevermind, they were a couple of minutes late. Now it says Sorry, there are currently no positions available. Please try again later..
 
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Cannot get to page five. All I get is a message stating: "Access to the Career section has failed." Anyone else running into this problem?

Now I knew I wasn't qualified, but I thought I could at least fill the entire app out!
 
done.. you have to exit then log back in with your user name and password to get past page 5.. i think it times out if you take too long to fill the pages out
 
Done also. The only way I was able to get back in to edit something on a previous page was to have the app e-mailed to me. In the e-mail it has a link to modify the app. Just logging back in would not allow me to modify.
 
Anybody else look at the app when it was e-mail to you (if you requested it) and notice that some of the questions that were answered show up as "Not Specified." Especially in the employment and education section
 
Once UAL's computer relaizes that your on page 4 and also realizes that your a male with over 1,000 TT, it automatically disqualifies you from continuing in the process as you fall in the "overqualified" category.
 
Once UAL's computer relaizes that your on page 4 and also realizes that your a male with over 1,000 TT, it automatically disqualifies you from continuing in the process as you fall in the "overqualified" category.
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Great - keep the myth alive! Walk into their ORD ops today and you will see 95% white males, most have an ex-military look to them. I realize it makes a lot of people feel better about themselves to believe somebody else is unqualified or inferior, so keep it coming.
 
Trogdor said:
All I get is a message stating: "Access to the Career section has failed."
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This message is normal. It is just letting you know that flying for Yonited is not longer a "career", it is a job.

As a supporter of UAL's top tier management, I would personally like to thank the pilots for their "yes" votes during the BK process. It is always much easier when an employee group bends over, rather than fight for anything that was in their contract.
 
WOW...some desperate folks out there. Do you have a better chance getting the job if you are the first one to fill out the app?
 
52560 said:
WOW...some desperate folks out there. Do you have a better chance getting the job if you are the first one to fill out the app?
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That is exactly what I was thinking. I will probably fill it out in a week or so if I feel like it. I am not sure I would take the job even if offered it. Their pilots seem pretty miserable.
 
Why?????????????

Why would you want to subject yourself and your family to a life of uncertainty, instability, low wages, crappy work rules, missing your kids plays and ball games, not making your cousins wedding, the empty plate at Thanksgiving table where you said you would make it in time, but now you missed your commute flight home and have to buy a hotel ,missing Christmas with your family, spending New Years, in a crappy hotels while your wife is at her works party with the new cute guy from upstairs, then when you get laid off, you wife is going to want you to step up and make some money doing what ever you can.

Whoa I got off on a rant sorry,
Good luck with your shiny jet syndrome hope it all work out in the end for ya
 
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vtwo said:
Why would you want to subject yourself and your family to a life of uncertainty, instability, low wages, crappy work rules, missing your kids plays and ball games, not making your cousins wedding, the empty plate at Thanksgiving table where you said you would make it in time, but now you missed your commute flight home and have to buy a hotel ,missing Christmas with your family, spending New Years, in a crappy hotels while your wife is at her works party with the new cute guy from upstairs, then when you get laid off, you wife is going to want you to step up and make some money doing what ever you can.
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Because that's what I got at year 9 of my current job. And I work for "the best regional out there." With United, I get the hope of better pay and QOL in the long term for (admittedly big) sacrifices today.



[/quote=vtwo;1372633]Good luck with your shiny jet syndrome hope it all work out in the end for ya[/quote]



Please, United has about the Un-shiniest and un-newest jets in the industry. Even Delta finally got around to washing their MD-80's a few years ago.

Seriously though, I feel where you're coming from with this rant. I'm not sure I'd even take the job if offered. But we're all able to make our own choices, right? Who knows, maybe you'll move up a few seniority #'s.
 
I'm embarrassed for anyone who is considering applying. That airline should be drown in the river like the diseased animal it is.

they flat out raped it's pilots and stole everything they've ever worked for and totally failed to honor any promise they've ever made.

United Airlines is an organized criminal institution. The top ten execs should be dragged out into the street receive what they deserve.

"best of the best"...go f-yourself United.
 
Hi!

VTWO: I've heard pilots at UAL describe their airline that way. I've also heard pilots at Alaska say that, NWA, DAL, CAL USAir, etc., etc.

The reason people would take a job like that, obviously, is that it is either better working conditions than where they're at, the pay is better, or both.

I have applied at DAL, and will at NWA, even though some people have said those jobs are bad. I did not, however, apply yet at UAL, because I think that DAL and NWA are better for me right now.

If UAL improves that may not be true.

And, bottom line, no one knows how those airlines will perform down the road. I want to fly for about 20 more years. I have no idea which PAX airline is better in the long run. UAL may turn out to be the best, and I may be making a mistake by not applying yet.

52560: OBVIOUSLY, if you apply sooner than someone else, and you have the SAME qualifications, you WILL have an interview sooner than them. Once you're at the interview, who knows.

cliff
YIP
 
To avoid the United application from timing out (on page 4, the one with flight times) and you losing all your hard work, put more than 1000 characters in one of the text boxes. Then hit Submit or confirm at the bottom of the page. The page will come back with an error and not go to the next page.
As you fill out your time, every two minutes or so hit the button at the bottom again - this will prevent the page from timing out.

I was happy I had my time in a electronic logbook - it really made filling out the flight times easy.
 
ferlo said:
I'm embarrassed for anyone who is considering applying. That airline should be drown in the river like the diseased animal it is.

they flat out raped it's pilots and stole everything they've ever worked for and totally failed to honor any promise they've ever made.

United Airlines is an organized criminal institution. The top ten execs should be dragged out into the street receive what they deserve.

"best of the best"...go f-yourself United.
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The same could easily be said of US Airways.

Or Northwest.
 
vtwo said:
Why would you want to subject yourself and your family to a life of uncertainty, instability, low wages, crappy work rules, missing your kids plays and ball games, not making your cousins wedding, the empty plate at Thanksgiving table where you said you would make it in time, but now you missed your commute flight home and have to buy a hotel ,missing Christmas with your family, spending New Years, in a crappy hotels while your wife is at her works party with the new cute guy from upstairs, then when you get laid off, you wife is going to want you to step up and make some money doing what ever you can.

Whoa I got off on a rant sorry,
Good luck with your shiny jet syndrome hope it all work out in the end for ya
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Well said. Look at the pay rates, that is no future.
 
vtwo said:
Why would you want to subject yourself and your family to a life of uncertainty, instability, low wages, crappy work rules, missing your kids plays and ball games, not making your cousins wedding, the empty plate at Thanksgiving table where you said you would make it in time, but now you missed your commute flight home and have to buy a hotel ,missing Christmas with your family, spending New Years, in a crappy hotels while your wife is at her works party with the new cute guy from upstairs, then when you get laid off, you wife is going to want you to step up and make some money doing what ever you can.

Whoa I got off on a rant sorry,
Good luck with your shiny jet syndrome hope it all work out in the end for ya
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Sounds like almost any job in this whole POS industry. If I was in my 20's again then I would have definetly chosen a different path. I could have gotten that MBA or that JD for the same amount of money or less than my ratings cost. All of my peers chose different paths and all have been making 150K plus for years. Unfortunately I passed my "career V1" 10 years ago and I have to make every decision looking forward. Yes it would have been nice to make $300K as an airline pilot and only work 10 days a month but with a very few exceptions those days are over.

The main decision factor for me looking forward is domiciles. If it's all a house of cards anyway - I might as well be close to home.

Good luck
 
Is anyone else angry about this? I spent years at a @#*&% regional just hoping for that brass ring of a nice major airline job. Now that the majors are hiring I am looking at pay wages so low that I haven't made that little money since I was a Beech 1900 FO. Between eating savings and not puting as much into a 401k, it will take 5+ years to even think about getting back to where I am now. I am pretty angry about that fact.

Am I alone in this?
 
skykid said:
Great - keep the myth alive! Walk into their ORD ops today and you will see 95% white males, most have an ex-military look to them. I realize it makes a lot of people feel better about themselves to believe somebody else is unqualified or inferior, so keep it coming.
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Right on, Bubba! It's time we stick it to the man!
Oh wait, you ARE The Man! So I guess you're just sticking it to yourself.....HA, that's rich!
 
It was about 10:12 before I could log in, but fortunately I did not encounter any problems. Can you go back on line and change sections, or do you have to wait 6 months?
 
Question. If I filled out the whole application and then a few hours went back and caught an error. Am I changing the app they recieved or do I have to wait six months to update it. It said you could only update every six months, but I can still get on and change things. Thanks
 

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