over qualified for air canada?

767 · Post by **767** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:52 pm

ok heres the situation, it isnt current, i just need advice for future.

i want to fly with air canada in the future. when i apply i will have about 3000 to 4000 hrsTT (over seas experince). i dont have any uni degree, just high school and a diploma (integrated cpl) from a non-accreddited canadian flight school/college/uni watever.... i will have a flight instructor rating, cpl/ifr/multi etc. Lets suppose i had a professional attitude at the interview. Will air canada consider hiring me? thanks for your kind help.

CARS 602.03 · Post by **CARS 602.03** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:22 pm

I'm not nearly there yet, but here are my thoughts:

1) I don't think there's such thing as over qualified, and I'm sure there are guys applying with 2x or 3x your hours.

2) I'm pretty sure you need a uni degree or college diploma to get in, but I may be wrong. I would still try with out it.

Pugster · Post by **Pugster** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:18 pm

Currently Air Canada is looking for guys and girls with jet and glass cockpit time (no, not on a Cirrus).

The last guy I know to get on had over 5,000 hours and was a Captain on a 727-200. So no, you wouldn't be overqualified with those hours - in fact depending on the market at that time you may well be underqualified. It all depends how the hiring situation is going at the time. If AC is your goal, start applying as soon as you have all the required ratings and update every 6 months.

Front. · Post by **Front.** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:01 pm

CARS 602.03 wrote:I'm not nearly there yet, but here are my thoughts:

1) I don't think there's such thing as over qualified, and I'm sure there are guys applying with 2x or 3x your hours.

2) I'm pretty sure you need a uni degree or college diploma to get in, but I may be wrong. I would still try with out it.

If you're in europe, stay there, work a foundation for your self. You're a recent flyer like me, and i don't think that you'll be ready for Air Canada in the next 5-6 years anyway, considering that you're saying "i'll get my Instructor rating" and etc.

What i suggest is that you stay in europe (if that's where you are, which by your name i am assuming is true) and see what you can do there. Gain airline experience where you started your training and come to places like canada and us once you have the jet time sitting under your hand.

What i guess i am trying to get at is that airlines normally don't like to spend extra time and perhaps money to bring somebody over seas to work for them. As mentioned before, there are a ton of guys applying with more hours than that and if it's anybody that should get priority in terms of looking at resume's, it would be them. Plus, at 3000 to 4000 hours you're in no special pool. You're competing with the average joe from Medicine Hat who is applying for the same job.

Further, considering you've lived outside canada, claiming a Red Pass within the time limit of what airlines want in Canada, would most likely be low.

With all that in mind, i am still in the stages of flight training so i wouldn't know, but when i piece together the puzzle pieces that's the answer i get.

I guess roll your own dice and see what happens....

mellow_pilot · Post by **mellow_pilot** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:28 pm

Front. wrote:i am still in the stages of flight training so i wouldn't know,

And yet you write so much...

Front. · Post by **Front.** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:15 pm

thats why i am doing awesome in english class... i am good at expanding bull shit

haha !

Thanks, i'll try to cut the essay writing

Forgot for a second what kind of forum i was on

mellow_pilot · Post by **mellow_pilot** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:17 pm

English class eh? Do you have Friesen?

Front. · Post by **Front.** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:44 pm

no my grade 11 english teacher is not friesen

haha

so to make a long story short, at 3.5 k hours, you're no special treat for the A320's or EMB, especially when it involves for Air Canada having to wait for license conversions and all the other nifty stuff.

have a good one ya'll.

mellow_pilot · Post by **mellow_pilot** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:44 am

I'm sorry, highschool?! Thought you were in uni for some reason...

C-GPFG · Post by **C-GPFG** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:20 am

Is AC strict with the university degree requirement?

chipmunk · Post by **chipmunk** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:33 am

C-GPFG wrote:Is AC strict with the university degree requirement?

I recall reading some posts about some folks with neither a uni degree nor a college diploma getting interviews (in one of those big long AC interview threads that you have to sort out the informative stuff from the crap and insults...

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Pugster · Post by **Pugster** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:58 pm

C-GPFG wrote:Is AC strict with the university degree requirement?

No, at least not for now.

767 · Post by **767** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:50 pm

Front. wrote:
CARS 602.03 wrote:

What i guess i am trying to get at is that airlines normally don't like to spend extra time and perhaps money to bring somebody over seas to work for them.

I dont believe that will be a concern for air canada/westjet etc. because I am a citizen of Canada will always be a citizen. The only problem is that the airlines over seas want you to sign contracts, which can be 2 years 3 years or even more. My primary goal is to fly with a Canadian airline and reside in Canada. If i have to pay the expenses to come back to Canada I would be more than happy to do so.

mellow_pilot · Post by **mellow_pilot** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:28 pm

Moving for work = tax write-off!!!!