AA Interviews

Just received the email about an hour ago. Says you and your guest will travel out on Business passes. The rest reads:

You will be staying at the DFW Hyatt Regency (located near Terminal C). Please check in at the reception desk. We are paying for the room, but the hotel will ask for a credit card to cover any incidentals.

Your training begins on Tuesday, January 21, at 8:30 a.m. Aries Transportation will pick you up in the Hyatt circle drive at 7:30 a.m. and take you to Flagship University for your Company Orientation.

If your guest is interested, we will have transportation available between the Hyatt and Southlake Town Center on Tuesday. Aries will run a shuttle at 12:00 noon and 6:30 to Southlake Town Center. They will run a shuttle back to the hotel at 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.. Southlake Town Center has shopping, restaurants, movies, and occasionally live music. The last two shuttles are set up so that you can join your guest at the Square and have dinner if you like. The Hyatt also has some very nice restaurant options.

Your Flight Department Orientation begins on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 8:00 a.m. Aries Transportation will pick you and your guest up at 7:30 a.m. and bring you to the Flight Academy. We will meet in the lobby area just inside the doors, and that is when our fun will begin!

Attire for orientation is business casual; however, we will be taking pictures on Wednesday, so we ask that you wear something you’d like to memorialize your first day in. Dinner on Wednesday night is a celebration for you, so attire tends to be a bit dressier. Be sure to pass this information on to your guests (particularly if they are female – you know how we can be about clothing!).

For planning purposes, you will be in training through Saturday at which point, you’ll be off for a couple days. You’ll start again at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday and go through the next Saturday. You will need a swimsuit for a ditching exercise on Day 8 (Thursday) of your training. Pilots in training are expected to present a professional image at all times; business casual attire, including clean, neat jeans, is expected.

As a new American Airlines employee, your medical benefits are effective with your first day of payroll. If you’d like to get a head-start on benefits you can go to my.aa.com to see what will be available to you. No password is necessary to enter the website. Additionally, non-rev travel privileges for your dependents will be reactivated within 24-48 hours of your payroll date.

Please be sure to bring your passport, 1st class medical and ATP license with you to orientation.

There is so much to know about American Airlines. But don’t worry, there's no need to know everything at once. Take your time and enjoy the orientation process. There will be plenty of time for questions – we promise.

We look forward to seeing you.

Anyone having their spouse/guest staying out longer than Thursday? My wife isn't currently working and her brother (my brother-in-law) lives in Dallas. Maybe Tiff or Billie can report if anyone in their class has their spouse still out there.

See you all soon.

I don't think there's any reason she couldn't stay, no one in our class had spouses stay but its your hotel room so you can do whatever! She will have non rev travel as soon as you get access to jetnet and put her in which for us was by Friday of the first week...that's the only thing is I think she'd be a non rev home maybe?

Have fun!! Looking forward to seeing you!!