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American Airlines pilot interview questions and selection process

How American Airlines selects pilots: 6 selection stages and 12 interview questions from candidates' accounts. Use them to practise; they are examples, not official answers.

Selection stages

  1. Online application
  2. Interview day at training centre/HQ (DFW): document and logbook check (originals, FCC licence, passport, medical)
  3. ~20-min company presentation
  4. Interview: TMAY, mix of TMAAT, technical questions and WWYD scenarios (~12 questions)
  5. One-on-one HR/admin interview with standard legal questions (and a work-traits assessment )
  6. Conditional offer, often same day if logbook in order

Tests

By rank

Interview questions

Competency and CRM

  1. Tell me about a time you witnessed discrimination in the workplace and how you handled it (First officer)

Motivation

  1. Why do you want to fly for American Airlines?

Personal and CV

  1. Walk us through your past flying experience

Company and industry

  1. What other airlines have you applied to or interviewed with?

Other

  1. Do you have any questions for us?

Technical

  1. On a walk-around in icing conditions, what are you looking for?

For practice only: general examples, not official answers. Pilot Jobs International accepts no responsibility for how they are used; prepare your own answers in your own words.

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