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    Stop Loss Cometh

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    This was posted at a recent OBAP job fair (MIA) recap on APC...I know these are what recruiters for the Airlines are telling folks, but interesting nonetheless. Lot of opening the floodgate talk.

    "I just returned from obap. It was my first job fair, and coming from a military background I had no clue what to expect. I arrived Wednesday about 2pm. Both Delta and United had 2-3 hour lines. The rest of the vendors, including US Airways, Jet Blue, and Fed Ex, had no line.

    I waited at Delta and had about a ten minute mini interview. They took notes on the resume, asked questions, etc. Their basic run down was hiring next year, likely indefinitely, but a lot would be flows.

    At US Airways, they just took your email address down to log you in, expressed their frustrations at the selection process, then sort of have us interview advice... Ie personality driven, demonstrate basic knowledge of flying (referencing military or your company specific policies ok for situational questions) and then said indefinite hiring with little to no pause for the merger.

    I got a pretty generic yeah you're qualified from Jet Blue and to just keep applying.

    Fed Ex was nice but said no hiring quite right now.

    I came back the second day and obap was a ghost town. No lines. I chatted with American. They would not take resumes but were extremely upbeat about absolutely massive hiring without stopping and an app window opening very soon with tbd vendor and interview style. Little to no pause for the merger.

    United was also extremely positive and I got lucky enough to spend ten minutes or so with the chief of pilot hiring in Houston. Super nice guy who just asked basic questions, like why would you quit a full time guard job to work here. United handed out a fact sheet basically restating the numbers you see on here. 250 or so through this year depending on recalls then the flood gates open.

    My impression is that delta and united were there to hire and the others were there to support a good event.

    Spirit was the only legit carrier not present. I did not stop by southwest, Alaska, or ups but they had booths along with Walmart, the navy, flight safety, and border patrol."

    C-17 Lands at Wrong Airport

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    The better question might be why has a LM "had a lot of gear and wrong airport saves".

    Holy shit, what is going on in that community if the LM has to save anything as basic as that?

    I hope you overstate...

    I believe he stated it was when he was "on position" - that would imply to me he has had experience working a control tower position not as a LM.

    Safety of Flight/Crew Rest

    in General Discussion

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    I called safety of flight in 2008 (undisclosed location SWAsia) due to the scheduler officially calling me in crew rest (dead sleep) to direct me to account for my crewmembers due to an airfield incident. The next day my leadership ordered me and my crew to mop and vacuum the squadron building and all crewmember trailers. Took all day - lesson learned.

    Rated pipeline.

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    For those wondering about how this will affect them or the timelines to effect these changes. This will not affect the Summer VML. It will not be in place to affect anyone coming thru UPT right now.

    Kikuchiyo - I'll second the thanks for the excellent posts. This is exactly why I check these boards from time to time, to hear the up-to-date info from someone in the know.

    Out of curiousity, was there any discussion about where the Mobility side of the house is sitting? I can't really understand what the CSAF indicated in his memo if the MAF is healthy or if we're also seeing shortfalls down the road.

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