NetJets hiring percentage

[skyward80]

There's a line winding out the door of people willing to take your seat.

Skyward80

 

[kman]

thats pretty dam$n funny. you guys make me laugh

 

[fischman]

Its funny how everybody the original statement was comparing a wide body captain slot to NJ SIC, and everybody compares it to a regional FO on reserve? I was home 3-4 more days a month with more flexibility , over the 7n7. And I had the option of doing day trip lines and coming home every night, So what, why do you guys compare a crappy regional job and schd to a senior wide body job. Do you really think it is the same?

I felt that in order to give you an accurate assesment was to give you the experiences I had. What is the point in comparing a widebody PIC to an NJA SIC? They are apples and oranges!

 

[kman]

And yet I never stated that it is the same. Thats my whole point. I really dont know how u could compare the two, expect for what I stated earlier.

 

[wolfpackpilot]

With a few notable exceptions, pilots are pilots wherever you go so don't assume that you are better than everyone else.......you are not.

I prefer to be one of the "notable exceptions".

And Im sorry, your logic is wrong. You take 100,000 pilots in the USA, that means 10,000 of them are idiots (10% of any group). Thats twice the size of our entire pilot workforce at NetJets. Get my point? Pilots are not all just pilots. They, like everyone else on this planet come with or with out baggage, flying skills, personal determination, education, attitudes.

NetJets may be a union group, but it still has enough individual mindset to recognize someone it DOESN'T want in our cockpits.

If you think I sound like someone who's arrogant and better than everyone else, you've obviously never spent anytime with a Navy fighter pilot! But I digress... I've earned my position and lot in life, it wasn't handed to me because I was cute and cuddly.

 

[av8tor4239]

Kman.. the comparison is the journey you have to take to get to the widebody PIC job vs. being a NJ SIC.... I would rather be a NJ SIC for ever than have to go through the hell of crawling up the SR list at a major, regional, cargo ect to become a widebody captain... If you want the shiny double breasted airline captain uniform.. GO GET IT.. I will take your spot on the list here and be content until i retire.. thank you have a great day!

 

[jpeace02]

two different conversations going on here! back to the original thread. Derinda told us they're hiring anywhere from 30-70% of the applicants. so don't be concerned about the 30-50% you've been seeing on here. that being said our interview class was all very qualified and i'd have a hard time picking out "thumbs down guys." also it can't be stated enough they're really hammering on this new "customer service" initiative. study the technical but really concern yourself with customer service situations you've been in and how you handeled it both good and bad. very pleasent expierence.

 

[kman]

Kman.. the comparison is the journey you have to take to get to the widebody PIC job vs. being a NJ SIC.... I would rather be a NJ SIC for ever than have to go through the hell of crawling up the SR list at a major, regional, cargo ect to become a widebody captain... If you want the shiny double breasted airline captain uniform.. GO GET IT.. I will take your spot on the list here and be content until i retire.. thank you have a great day!

Hey thats fine, I just disagree with your original statement of how a NJ SIC is a better job than a Widebody CA. If your original statement said something along the lines on I rather not go through what it takes to get there, I wouldn't have even typed a word in this thread, but u didn't. Enjoy the fancy new Loro Piana Coat and the upgrade. Have a great day.

 

[-FlyAuburn-]

Hey thats fine, I just disagree with your original statement of how a NJ SIC is a better job than a Widebody CA. If your original statement said something along the lines on I rather not go through what it takes to get there, I wouldn't have even typed a word in this thread, but u didn't. Enjoy the fancy new Loro Piana Coat and the upgrade. Have a great day.

Hey Kman, time to start your own thread man. You've hijacked this one long enough.

 

[Caveman]

1st Commandment of Aviation: Thou shalt never ever say anything remotely critical of NetJets or a plague of fractional locusts will descend upon thee.

I notice that most (not all) of the anti airline types have either not flown 121 or have only flown 121 regional. Just saying.....

While there are former major/legacy pilots at NJ my guess is the majority of NJ pilots were either out of work, just leaving the military, furloughed, flying for a regional, flying corporate or flying 135 charter. How many prior SWA, FedEx, UPS, AirTran, Frontier, JetBlue, DAL, NWA, UAL, CAL, Spirit or Alaska pilots are there at NJ? I'm not talking about retirees or guys that were furloughed at the time. How many former legacy/major airline guys leave that job to go to NJ? There are some, but not many. That should tell anybody with a lick of common sense those airline jobs aren't that bad. If they were we'd all be leaving in droves to go to NJ. The same can be said about NJ. Not many leave there to go to a major, but some do.

I get real tired of the holier than thou types at any good job that seem to think only they know what's best and how only they played the game right right and won. For the overwhelming majority of us it's luck. We paid our dues in various ways and then applied to the companies we think we would like to work for. Almost all of us took the first decent job offer that came our way. The smart ones realise that and stay grateful and humble. The rest pontificate about how smart they are and how the rest of us are "fat, lazy, unprofessional idiots".

If I were unemployed I would love to get a job at NJ. If I were unemployed and had job offers from a major and NJ which would I choose? I don't know. It's a tough call. I know I wouldn't leave my current major (JetBlue) to go there. I also doubt that I'd leave NJ to go to JetBlue either.

Congrats to those of you at NJ for landing an excellent job. I wouldn't be so quick to castigate the rest of us though. As shocking as it may sound some of us also work for good companies that treat us well and we enjoy our jobs. I know, I know. Blasphemy! All airlines suck! NJ is the only true job! All others are false gods! Blah, blah, blah........

BTW, the guy that claimed being a NJ SIC is better than being a legacy widebody CA is on crack. If he'd said he'd rather be a NJ CA than a major/legacy FO I might have agreed with him, but what he actually wrote was just plain stupid.