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Re: 2018 Pilot Hiring

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Re: 2018 Pilot Hiring

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Went on the Sunwing career page: https://jobs.jobvite.com/careers/sunwing/jobs?error=404
Couldn't find any posting for First Officers. I guess I am too late :cry:
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Re: 2018 Pilot Hiring

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Still open on pilotcareercenter.com

https://www.pilotcareercentre.com/Pilot ... g-Airlines
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Re: 2018 Pilot Hiring

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DHC-1 Jockey wrote: Wed May 01, 2019 6:26 pm
daedalusx wrote: Wed May 01, 2019 3:46 pm Besides cadets, every one hired at SWG that I know had a few of these :
- 4000+ hrs
- 1000+ 705 Capt time
- 1000+ Transport Jet experience
- 705 LTC, CRM, Training experience
- Internal ref (big one)
- STEM Degree
- Bilingual
Daedalusx is right, and the internal reference really is a huge factor. In my class (Hired 2017), there was a C.P. at a 704, 2 705 ACP "A's," a guy from the Air Force, 3 other 705 Capt's, and 2 705 F/O's.

All are great guys and I think all had internal references. Sunwing (and any 705 airline for that matter) can teach how to fly the plane, but a big plus is the personality which you can't teach. I think that's why in my year and a half here so far, there's not one person I've flown with that I wouldn't want to fly with again.
How can one have internal reference if one doesn't work there?
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Re: 2018 Pilot Hiring

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How can one have internal reference if one doesn't work there?
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From friends or acquaintances who do.

Was that a skill testing question??
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Re: 2018 Pilot Hiring

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FL410AV8R wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 1:14 pm
How can one have internal reference if one doesn't work there?
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From friends or acquaintances who do.

Was that a skill testing question??
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I don't have any there.
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Re: 2018 Pilot Hiring

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mollok wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 12:18 pm Still open on pilotcareercenter.com

https://www.pilotcareercentre.com/Pilot ... g-Airlines
Have you clicked on the links displayed on pilotcareercentre? When I do it shows nothing for pilots.
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Re: 2018 Pilot Hiring

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My bad, you're right, nothing below the link😥
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Re: 2018 Pilot Hiring

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So anyone here know if the pool on the June ground school is completed?
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Interviews wrap up this week iirc. I would think offers have to go out by the end of next week for a June gs :?:
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Good luck to all who interviewed. Sunwing is truely a gem of Canadian Aviation. With the new type coming on line soon, things are certainly going to get interesting.
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Heard june and july Gs are cancelled.
Anyone can confirm it?
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Re: 2018 Pilot Hiring

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munzil wrote: Mon May 13, 2019 12:58 pm Good luck to all who interviewed. Sunwing is truely a gem of Canadian Aviation. With the new type coming on line soon, things are certainly going to get interesting.
New type?
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Aya wrote: Mon May 13, 2019 1:01 pm Heard june and july Gs are cancelled.
Anyone can confirm it?
June GS is cancelled but not july for the moment
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munzil wrote: Mon May 13, 2019 12:58 pm Good luck to all who interviewed. Sunwing is truely a gem of Canadian Aviation. With the new type coming on line soon, things are certainly going to get interesting.
A gem??? Seriously? Sunwing isn’t very far removed from the days of trying to play the foreign worker system at every corner in order to avoid hiring Canadians. Instead filling their flight decks with cheaper, drunk Eastern Europeans.
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Yycjetdriver wrote: Wed May 15, 2019 6:07 am
munzil wrote: Mon May 13, 2019 12:58 pm Good luck to all who interviewed. Sunwing is truely a gem of Canadian Aviation. With the new type coming on line soon, things are certainly going to get interesting.
A gem??? Seriously? Sunwing isn’t very far removed from the days of trying to play the foreign worker system at every corner in order to avoid hiring Canadians. Instead filling their flight decks with cheaper, drunk Eastern Europeans.
Eh? I work here, what on earth are you talking about? To be frank your diatribe sounds a little drunk in itself.
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Handover wrote: Wed May 15, 2019 6:25 am
Yycjetdriver wrote: Wed May 15, 2019 6:07 am
munzil wrote: Mon May 13, 2019 12:58 pm Good luck to all who interviewed. Sunwing is truely a gem of Canadian Aviation. With the new type coming on line soon, things are certainly going to get interesting.
A gem??? Seriously? Sunwing isn’t very far removed from the days of trying to play the foreign worker system at every corner in order to avoid hiring Canadians. Instead filling their flight decks with cheaper, drunk Eastern Europeans.
Eh? I work here, what on earth are you talking about? To be frank your diatribe sounds a little drunk in itself.
Ok.... good one.
So I’m guessing by the fact you chose to attack me instead of what I said I was correct in my statement.
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Yycjetdriver wrote: Wed May 15, 2019 7:01 am
Handover wrote: Wed May 15, 2019 6:25 am
Yycjetdriver wrote: Wed May 15, 2019 6:07 am

A gem??? Seriously? Sunwing isn’t very far removed from the days of trying to play the foreign worker system at every corner in order to avoid hiring Canadians. Instead filling their flight decks with cheaper, drunk Eastern Europeans.
Eh? I work here, what on earth are you talking about? To be frank your diatribe sounds a little drunk in itself.
Ok.... good one.
So I’m guessing by the fact you chose to attack me instead of what I said I was correct in my statement.
Ok, fine. Can you elaborate on how we are not far removed from the foreign worker days? Certainly that incident was not to be celebrated. A number of airlines have had such unfortunate issues. Are you implying that the rest of us behave in such a fashion?
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I've worked at 3 705 companies, 1 704 and 1 703 and SWG is the best place I've been. Hopefully they stay in business a long time as I intend to stay the rest of my career here.
Yycjetdriver wrote: Wed May 15, 2019 6:07 amSeriously? Sunwing isn’t very far removed from the days of trying to play the foreign worker system at every corner in order to avoid hiring Canadians.
Note that Transat (who used to slag SWG for doing this) is using foreign workers themselves now to augment their winter flying. I'm not slamming Transat by the way. I know people who work there and they seem just as happy there as the people at SWG. Having these agreements allows SWG to have the flexibility to not lay-off pilots in the summer. And, we send far more pilots to Europe in the summer than SWG brings to Canada in the winter.

I think it's a good business model for a very seasonal business.
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So groundschool is scheduled on July only, can anyone here confirm?
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