Interview result

[flieslikeachicken]

Interviewer here. Feel free to reach out to the hiring team if you haven't heard back after 10 weeks.

Best of luck.

What does "you were unsuccessful in the interview. We will contact you for a second interview" actually mean?

[jpilot77]

What makes you think that? There's 80 aircraft being delivered in the next 4 years with hundreds of retirements. Might be a pause for a month or two but I don't doubt there will still be massive hiring for the next few years.

Hiring in 2024 will likely pause until the fall possibly winter. As noted the airline has lots of firm orders but the EIS for the 321XLR and 787-10 appear to be slipping into mid 2026 from late 2025, that alone would be reason enough to pause PIT classes for 4-5 months. If there isn't a slight panic in YUL over the potential for a recession, I'd be shocked. US carriers have already made public statements about weakening demand. Air Canada's #1 priority is to make money, not growth, not recapturing lost market share, or entering into price wars. Matching capacity to demand will be their objective.

At least publicly, there seems to be very little clarity about the actual operational fleet plan.

Yes, there are ‘fleet charts’ contained in the MD&A. But there is also commentary on the Q&A segment of the quarterly calls about “retire some older aircraft ” that is not yet reflected in the fleet charts.

Cameron Doerksen

Good morning. Just a question on the fleet. And obviously, there's been a number of aircraft that have been kind of pushed to the right here. But if I look at 2026, 35 aircraft coming in is a pretty big chunk of planes. So, I'm just wondering how you manage that kind of high level of deliveries coming in? And are you thinking about any potential opportunities to maybe defer some of those to later years, just to kind of smooth out the delivery profile?

Mark Galardo

No, in 2026, I mean, from a widebody point of view, we'll see maybe a couple of 787-10s, and we'll start seeing the first 321s, the XLRs, and we've been waiting for those for a long time, right? So, I think that we'll see the cadence of them. But our expectation now is probably starting in Q1 '26, we start taking those aircraft. And there's a lot of 220s. I'd say that overall, we've been waiting for these aircraft. We're ready to deploy them, and we'll be bringing them in, in 2026, and we plan for the CapEx.

So, we're managing the business around those parameters, and we have been for now, probably a couple of years in anticipation. So, I don't see anything else needed to be done really to enable the effect of deployment of the aircraft, and we have opportunities here to retire some older aircraft as well.

Michael Rousseau

Yes. And Cameron, it's Mike. Just to pile on I mean, we've built the resources around to take these planes in. These planes are important to our new frontiers plan to our long-range plan. And so, we're excited and the entire company is excited about taking these 4 type fleet types in next year. And so, we're ready to take them in and leverage them as we go forward.

So I guess the question is - what is this ‘new frontiers’ plan?

When is the Rouge transition to the 737MAX? What will come of the current Rouge NB fleet? Repatriation to mainline? One cannot help but think that will result in the continued retirement of the 319 fleet.

B767? That cannot be a long term fleet type. And the freighter operation?

B777-200? Replaced by 787-10?

Fleet plan shows +35 airframes in 2026. That would normally equate to 500-600 pilot positions. Some of these positions are probably already baked in to the 2025 bids to date. But there are probably some underutilized airframes and others that will ultimately be departing the fleet. The economy and US travel patterns will also affect fleet decisions.

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The 787-10 doesn’t have the range to replace the 77-200. I could see it replacing the 330.

[CaptDukeNukem]

Interviewer here. Feel free to reach out to the hiring team if you haven't heard back after 10 weeks.

Best of luck.

What does "you were unsuccessful in the interview. We will contact you for a second interview" actually mean?

Probably exactly that.

[cdnavater]

Interviewer here. Feel free to reach out to the hiring team if you haven't heard back after 10 weeks.

Best of luck.

What does "you were unsuccessful in the interview. We will contact you for a second interview" actually mean?

Probably exactly that.

you always have a way with words!

[CaptDukeNukem]

What does "you were unsuccessful in the interview. We will contact you for a second interview" actually mean?

Probably exactly that.

you always have a way with words!

Thanks!

[BE02 Driver]

It's completely unprofessional of AC to wait multiple months to notify people that they have passed the interview process. They should be notifying people right away and placing them in a pool for hire.

[PostmasterGeneral]

It's completely unprofessional of AC to wait multiple months to notify people that they have passed the interview process. They should be notifying people right away and placing them in a pool for hire.

If you don’t hear back for awhile, it’s because your resume got sent to the bottom of the pile. Depending on what other candidates they get, you may get hired as they get more desperate, or you may get bypassed if more qualified candidates interview in the meantime.

[pelmet]

It's completely unprofessional of AC to wait multiple months to notify people that they have passed the interview process. They should be notifying people right away and placing them in a pool for hire.

If you don’t hear back for awhile, it’s because your resume got sent to the bottom of the pile. Depending on what other candidates they get, you may get hired as they get more desperate, or you may get bypassed if more qualified candidates interview in the meantime.

I agree with the unprofessional statement by Postmaster General.

I had an interview once with AC and I was very keen to leave my position at the time as it had changed from good schedule to bad schedule.

At the end of the interview, I was told that I would find out whether I passed or not in a fairly reasonable time period. Time went by and nothing was heard. Then another position opened up in my company that was quite decent. On the other hand, I would still take the AC job if it was offered. I had two weeks to apply for the new position in my company or else someone else would get it and I would be stuck in the job I wanted to leave.

Each day I was hoping AC would call and I figure that I was in this no-man’s land where you passed the interview but could get kicked out of the so-called pool they have.

Of course, one could simply call and ask for an update but the phone message stated in no uncertain terms that interviewees were to not call for an update. Obviously, if one were to do that, it does not look good and might ruin your chances.

While I could just do the training for the new type at my current company, being a decent employee made me not want to screw them over for training costs.

In the end, I sent a professional email and voice message explaining the situation and politely requesting an update. My PFO letter was dated the same day and I took the new position in my company.

I agree that Air Canada hiring management is totally unprofessional in this regard by putting pilots and other companies in positions like this. Quite a few years later I went to another large airline and the in person interview was last of several things to pass. They gave me the results ten minutes after walking out of the interview.