Netjets interview--1st day ques....

[irapilot]

I love it - a 5000 hour pilot with 2 types and knows all!

I love it - a 5000 hour pilot with 2 types and knows it all! I have been doing this for 20 years and I don't have a tenth of certainty that this young man has. I dislike the whole fractional scene myself - but with the rabid intensity that Gulfstream 200 attacks with really is incongruent to this board unless there are deeper issues that I can't figure out.

 

[Snakeplt]

GORDON24....DO NOT COME TO WORK HERE.

Having said that, here is something I would do if I were in your shoes right now.

1. INTERVIEW with Nutjets (Business suit is the norm for all interviews).
2. LEARN from your interview experience with Nutjets. The GREAT thing is that Nutjets pays for your airline ticket, hotel and everything else for the interview now I believe (I THINK !!!!) so you don't lose any cash.
3. WHEN they call you for the "you've been hired," bullcrap phonecall, JUST SAY NO !!! It won't cost you anything and you will gain some valuable experience from your first practice interview.
4. Apply to all of the regional airlines you can and see who bites. If you have the time for Nutjets, you have the time for any of the regional airlines. Try AIRTRAN and FRONTIER too...long shot but you never know. Consider CITATION SHARES and FLOPS...they definitely pay better but I'm not real sure about how they are treated by management.
5. MOST IMPORTANTLY: Please research everything you can about Nutjets. Read all of the messages on this board regarding how F***ING BAD IT SUCKS at this craphole ! Don't come here...you will work your ass off FOR NO PAY and will hate yourself by the end of the first year because you will still have another full year to work off this smameful training contract !!! Good luck.

Bottom Line: JUST SAY F**K NO !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DO-82 driver]

....24

No matter how you look at, NutJets will still pay you more then the Regionals. Its a sad fact but the Fractionals are going to fall in that "pay-gap" between the regionals and majors.

You'll have to make your own decision. Can anyone out there name a regional who pays their pilots more then what NetJets pays their pilots?????? Anyone?

 

[Snakeplt]

Gordon

Don't listen to the koolaid drinkers !!! They are, most likely, too old to move on or trapped economically so they will tell you how "GREAT" it is here. Believe it or not, if you go to a company like Air Wisconsin you will have A MUCH BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE and you will eventually make some good cash WITHOUT getting your ass kicked every tour. I am sure there are at least 2 or 3 other regionals that would be MUCH BETTER than this hole ! Good luck !

 

[Gulfstream 200]

Hey guys, really...should I wear a suit to an interview?

 

[NJACrewservicer]

snakepit, why is that you tell everybody else how bad it sucks, not to come here, go somewhere else, and you haven't left yourself? You must like it more than you are leading us to believe.

 

[Lear70]

Ratings: license to screw with pilots schedules

I think that about sums it up, don't you? *snicker*

No, I don't work for Netjets, but we have that same kind of "I can screw with you if I want to" mentality with our schedulers at Pinnacle. It really turns what could be a cool place to work into a place you just look forward to getting away from and going home.

 

[NJACrewservicer]

I think you missed the sarcasim. Some of our pilots feel that the company has a personal agenda to mess with thier duty day.

Sounds like you have the same problem.

 

[On Your Six]

How many pilots have left recently?

So, has the mass exodus begun from Netjets? How many pilots are leaving per month if they are so upset? Where are most Netjets pilots going to (e.g., SWA, JetBlue, other fractionals)?

Can/will you guys strike at any time in the NEAR future?

 

[NJA Capt]

So, has the mass exodus begun from Netjets? How many pilots are leaving per month if they are so upset?

2003....less than 60
2004....less than 24 (so far)

 

[DO-82 driver]

2005....the sky's the limit!!!!!! Lot of people are going to move up the ladder.

 

[infoman]

Gordon24,

Wear a suit. The company is very conservative.

Just Watching the Show!
Infoman.

 

[Fokkerflyer]

Hey G200:

Your quote: "and by the way I am getting my type next month and I am paying for it to"

Ummm...

To do what..?

 

[Heavy Set]

FF,

That quote was taken from a bonehead on the regional board I believe. Perhaps G200 should clarify so that people don't think it is his remark.