Originally Posted by captainChet

FYI, "commitments to my present employer", a Part 121 airline, was good enough excuse to have them find me an interview date that did work! Of course, that was 5 years ago, but it should be a good enough excuse now.

After all, Express would appreciate you not calling in sick to go interview somewhere.

Other than that, make the time as it has been recommended.

Originally Posted by jem019

See captainChet, that's just it....my "commitment to my present employer" is a Part 121 airline. I'm glad someone else on here has had to make the same decision that I just had to make. If I weren't in long term training right now I would have tried to get the interview on a date that fell on a day off or worst case taken a personal leave day (my company is pretty good about granting those if you need it). But I just started sim training and won't be done until May 30th....then IOE. So realistically I couldn't interview until next month anyways; they just weren't calling for June interviews yet so that's why they put me on the "to be contacted next month" list. I even asked if there were going to be interviews on May 31st because I have that day off as of now. Trust me I wish it hadn't worked out this way because I really do want to work for XJT...but I'm just not going to screw up what I have going, in case I botch the interview and don't get hired. And like captainChet said, I don't think XJT would appreciate it if I had called in sick for a sim session to go interview somewhere else...so that's why I made the decision that I made.