Disappointed in ExpressJet...

[CapnJim]

"WHAT WOULD YOU DO!!???!!?!""

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

"Jeeeeeeum, what's Vmc on Santa's sleigh?"

[370joe]

CAL turned me down for a job, probably good for them, but they felt bad for me and let me fly a 737 for a IAH turn.

If you were at Vr, would u rotate?

[CapnJim]

Yayus.

Who dat!?

[370joe]

Scooter

[CapnJim]

S to da Brown.
Man oh man. How'd you find this place?

[Maximillian_Jenius]

Originally Posted by CapnJim

S to da Brown.
Man oh man. How'd you find this place?

Hey...maybe he can tell us in the thread goin on in the lav!

[370joe]

Have been looking at these forums for a while, just thought that I was cool enough now to post.

[slamma1906]

Airwis is on top now, we got jets with flyin behind them. "There is nothing to Fear but Fear itself"

Originally Posted by Chris_Ford

So Purdue had their career fair today, and in an effort to continue the job search and not eliminating any options, I attended.

In attendance were ExpressJet, TSA, Eagle, GoJet (nobody talked to them), Big Sky, and Piedmont (who actually failed to show) (oh and JetU and Gulfstream were there too!111)

Anyway, when I got to the Express Jet table, the woman there seemed to be quite possibly one of the rudest and most unprofessional "recruiters" I've met. While she was talking to myself and others, I heard some gems like,
"We're the BEST PAYING REGIONAL out there!" (um, isn't Horizon?)
"Do you really want to fly a prop? We fly JETS!"
"We're hiring 64 a month, why don't you go ask Eagle how much THEY'RE hiring" (50 a month, that's not too much of a discrepancy.)
"We're the best regional out there, all the other ones just flat out don't compare."
"You're worthless to me unless you have 100 multi" (even if it's true, there are better ways to say it)
"We've got lots of things going on" but fails to answer the "what are you doing with the lost airplanes" question.

The poorest thing about it was that these 300 hour Purdue kids were lapping it right up. "Yeah, why would you want to fly a prop!?"

I'm sorry, but I understand that you might be in "competition" against the other regionals, but a little respect for the competition (aka not saying everyone sucks but you) goes a long way in my book. Especially when you have a 5 inch thick stack of resumes anyway. You're not going to have to worry about any pilot shortage with the good rep you've had in the past.

Just found it so interesting that a very well-regarded regional could send someone that... tactless or unprofessional.

/end venting

[wheelsup]

Originally Posted by slamma1906

Airwis is on top now, we got jets with flyin behind them. "There is nothing to Fear but Fear itself"

airwis is a pretty small playa in the big big world of "major" regionals...

[GaTechKid]

When is the announcement that Air Wis won the Midwest RFP coming out?

[casey]

Originally Posted by GaTechKid

When is the announcement that Air Wis won the Midwest RFP coming out?

i stopped paying much attention to that one when they let us know a month ago that we were out of it.

[wheelsup]

Originally Posted by GaTechKid

When is the announcement that Air Wis won the Midwest RFP coming out?

AWAC probably won't win the RFP. Count on Chautauqa or Skywest. AWAC has an extremely expensive cost structure associated with the company.

Think about it - the only way they were able to continue flying was to purchase a stake in US Air. Unless they do the same with Midwest (yeah, right) it ain't gonna happen.