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It's more about your attitude and personality than it is about your experience. We want people that are easy to get along with and fun to be on the road with. Slam-clickers need not apply.

2000 for SIC and 3500 for PIC are the hiring minimums. Checkout the website for the breakdown.

We've recently hired guys with 2500 hours from Mesa and a 26000 hour retired legacy airline pilot. Kinda hard to say what is and isn't competitive.

Good luck!
 
t-bone said:
It's more about your attitude and personality than it is about your experience. We want people that are easy to get along with and fun to be on the road with. Slam-clickers need not apply.

2000 for SIC and 3500 for PIC are the hiring minimums. Checkout the website for the breakdown.

We've recently hired guys with 2500 hours from Mesa and a 26000 hour retired legacy airline pilot. Kinda hard to say what is and isn't competitive.

Good luck!
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Apologies if this has been answered before, but can you explain the domicile situation there? Is there a home-basing option? When would that apply?
 
bases

As it currently stands, you can live where ever you want if you're on the 17/15 schedule. This is NOT a reserve schedule as some have referred to it. You are on for 17 days straight, then off for 15 days.

If that's too long for you to be gone from home, then move to Sacramento, Van Nuys, Phoenix or the TEB/HPN area and you can be on the 9/7 rotation. Those bases are pretty loosely defined, San Diego is part of the VNY/SoCal base, Reno is part of Sacramento, and Prescott is part of the PHX base. Draw a 2 hour radius around those airports and you've got a pretty good guesstimate. Talk to the CP or DO if you're not sure you live close enough, they seem to be willing to work something out.
 
Has anyone received a phone call from XO Jet recently? I assume they are still hiring/interviewing for their projected growth? I applied almost 3 weeks ago and haven't heard anything yet.
 
xrated said:
Does that mean you all get plowed at the managers reception at the Embassy Suites after a duty day? I guess those Swift guys are having a positive effect over at XO!
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Did XOJet pick up a bunch of Swift's X pilots? Is that the reason why XOJet has a PHX base?
 
AZaviator said:
Has anyone received a phone call from XO Jet recently? I assume they are still hiring/interviewing for their projected growth? I applied almost 3 weeks ago and haven't heard anything yet.
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I'm in the same boat as you. I applied about the same time and nothing. Guess they have better canidates.
 
Normally to go to XO, you have to have Command Screened, probably in your 12-16 year point in your career. You need to be qualified as an Aircraft Commander in the weapon system you will be operating, and be prepared to take over as Commanding Officer.
 
Nope we are still hiring. Be patient if they like your info, you will get the call. Selection is done at certain times of the month. Lots happening around the office with expansion, training, and pilot stuff.

Good Luck

Xdriver


JJET44 said:
I'm in the same boat as you. I applied about the same time and nothing. Guess they have better canidates.
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cessnaxdriver said:
Nope we are still hiring. Be patient if they like your info, you will get the call. Selection is done at certain times of the month. Lots happening around the office with expansion, training, and pilot stuff.

Good Luck Xdriver
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Thanks for the info. We'll continue to keep our fingers crossed!
 
Also, what is life like on the road? Typical day type of thing. How long is the average duty day with how many legs/hours. It sounds like they keep you all pretty busy.
 
Just Jay said:
Also, what is life like on the road? Typical day type of thing. How long is the average duty day with how many legs/hours. It sounds like they keep you all pretty busy.
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Check out the following link to Flightaware.com. It shows airborne Citation Xs. Look for Papa Tango flights (end numbers with PT) - those are the XOJet aircraft. You can click on those flight numbers and check out where they have been over the last few days. That should give you a good indication. They certainly do a lot of transcon flights in those Xs...

http://flightaware.com/live/aircrafttype/C750

Good luck.
 
What you don't see is the crew changes on the road. I hate people that don't have clue and give all the answers! It sounds like our f@#*k gov't on illegal immigration. We usually work a 10 hour day (NOT Flying) But you can see the max if things get crazy. We have great support and never get pushed to do anything.. Life is good on the road and its better than the 7 years I did at NetJets..
 
cessnaxdriver said:
What you don't see is the crew changes on the road. I hate people that don't have clue and give all the answers! It sounds like our f@#*k gov't on illegal immigration. We usually work a 10 hour day (NOT Flying) But you can see the max if things get crazy. We have great support and never get pushed to do anything.. Life is good on the road and its better than the 7 years I did at NetJets..
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Whoa dude. Don't hate the player, hate the game... This is an information forum and not everyone has all the answers. Perhaps some of these people know XOJet drivers and are relying on 2nd or 3rd hand information - it's not a perfect resource. If you see an error, maybe you should correct it vs. blasting people who are trying to be helpful.
 
You are absolutely correct on that and well put. Just frustrated over bad info. When I was working on my PH.D, I had to teach undergrads and I used to I flunk them when they gave me bad info... Just people should give accurate info or none at all.


johnsonrod said:
Whoa dude. Don't hate the player, hate the game... This is an information forum and not everyone has all the answers. Perhaps some of these people know XOJet drivers and are relying on 2nd or 3rd hand information - it's not a perfect resource. If you see an error, maybe you should correct it vs. blasting people who are trying to be helpful.
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Didn't the total time mins use to be 1500tt? I meet everything else but 500 short of the total time...is it worth it to apply?

What other equipment do they own/manage and plan on hiring into?

How many do they plan on hiring?

What is the culture like? Dot comish? (in a positive way)

Can a new-hire choose the schedule 9/7 or 17/15 on day one? Are you able to switch between the two?

Thanks in advance.
 
cessnaxdriver said:
You are absolutely correct on that and well put. Just frustrated over bad info. When I was working on my PH.D, I had to teach undergrads and I used to I flunk them when they gave me bad info... Just people should give accurate info or none at all.
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Easy CXdvr,

I don't think he gave any bad info. He just sugested that people go to flightaware to see where we go. He didn't say anything about how many crews were flying those trips. Flightinfo does give good information about what our typical trip looks like. He also said we do lots of transcon's. how can you not agree with that?
 
AeroDMB said:
Didn't the total time mins use to be 1500tt? I meet everything else but 500 short of the total time...is it worth it to apply?

What other equipment do they own/manage and plan on hiring into?

How many do they plan on hiring?

What is the culture like? Dot comish? (in a positive way)

Can a new-hire choose the schedule 9/7 or 17/15 on day one? Are you able to switch between the two?

Thanks in advance.
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Put in an app. what's the worst that could happen?

For now, hiring into the X. CL30 next year sometime. From time to time there may be a few King Air 350 and Premier openings.

The plan is to hire about 600 in the next 5 years.

You choose your schedule. Change it when you wish.

I would say dotcomish in that the company is very employee friendly.
 
Thanks for the good info guys. It's good to hear people fairly happy where they are with so many s#*!ty outfits out there.

How are they on the interviews?
 
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Easy yourself.. I never disagreed about the transcon info. Thats were the X excels, just when someone ask or info, sending them to flightaware does not show all the info. A request was made for information so yes, he did give bad info. Although not intentionally its still bad. No worries

Cheers

Xdriver


X-rated said:
Easy CXdvr,

I don't think he gave any bad info. He just sugested that people go to flightaware to see where we go. He didn't say anything about how many crews were flying those trips. Flightinfo does give good information about what our typical trip looks like. He also said we do lots of transcon's. how can you not agree with that?
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Do you guys have actual dispatchers that issue flt releases like the airlines or trip coordinators and the captains do everything?
I know that it's off the subject and kinda a wierd question to ask but I believe that you can tell a lot about a company by the type of ops they run.
 
dispatchers

JJET44 said:
Do you guys have actual dispatchers that issue flt releases like the airlines or trip coordinators and the captains do everything?
I know that it's off the subject and kinda a wierd question to ask but I believe that you can tell a lot about a company by the type of ops they run.
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I'm not really sure what it says about us that we haven't had dispatchers...just 3 years ago we only had 3 airplanes, the need just wasn't there. However, we actually are in the process of hiring into our now forming dispatch office. We've got the green light to hire 8 licensed dispatchers.
 
cessnaxdriver said:
You are absolutely correct on that and well put. Just frustrated over bad info. When I was working on my PH.D, I had to teach undergrads and I used to I flunk them when they gave me bad info... Just people should give accurate info or none at all.
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Dude there lies your problem, your too smart to be a pilot. You should get your money back.....LOL
 
t-bone said:
I'm not really sure what it says about us that we haven't had dispatchers...just 3 years ago we only had 3 airplanes, the need just wasn't there. However, we actually are in the process of hiring into our now forming dispatch office. We've got the green light to hire 8 licensed dispatchers.
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Well at least your moving in the right direction!!
 

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