Overnight flight on interview day?

[Amos2014]

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Hi everyone,
I need your opinion about traveling for interviews. I live in West and most of my interviews are held in East. Lots of traveling back and forth. Since I am still in school and work, I am planning on taking an overnight flight and going to an interview straight from the airport. Would it be a bad idea? It's a bit of pain to make an arrangement for my class and work schedule along with the interview schedule.

 

[321931]

Hi everyone,
I need your opinion about traveling for interviews. I live in West and most of my interviews are held in East. Lots of traveling back and forth. Since I am still in school and work, I am planning on taking an overnight flight and going to an interview straight from the airport. Would it be a bad idea? It's a bit of pain to make an arrangement for my class and work schedule along with the interview schedule.

I wouldn't recommend it...plane delays... cancellations...getting lost. But hey it could work!👍

 

[DownFracture]

It's certainly not ideal, but you've gotta do what you gotta do. I'm having to do the almost the same thing for one of my interviews - fly home overnight after the interview and drive from the airport to school to take a test.

Hopefully all the hard work pays off with multiple acceptances!

 

[MrBeans]

I'm considering the overnight-flight idea, as well.

I'm particularly trying for overnight-flight-interview scheduling for schools where an airport is close by.

For Florida, Orlando airport is about 5-6 hours away from UF, so I'm lodging for sure!

But for NYU, I'm trying to figure if I can arrive, interview and depart all in the same day. 🙄

 

[ItalianPrincess]

i'm going to tell you guys a story which is why i'm not doing the flight on the same day thing....

last spring break i was heading to key west and was making a connection in Charlotte, NC after we took off my plane got hit by a flock of geese. we lost an engine and had to make an emergency landing ended sitting in the plane on the ground for hours to go back to the airport THEN when we got to the airport they informed us that there was not a replacement plane to take to get us to our destination so they cancelled the flight. this left ~100+ passengers to reschedule flights, i was personally in the airport for 5 hours trying to reschedule my flight and couldn't get one until the next day and it was at 5 am....


sooo moral of my story is you never know whats going to happen with an airplane...even a couple hour delay can make you miss your interview, or make a terrible impression. my flight to NYC is not even 45 minutes and i'm going the night before so i can make sure i get there in time and am relaxed and confidant for my interview. just my two cents...

 

[vtizzy]

I toke a red eye flight and went straight from the airport to the interview. I was tired that day, but the adrenaline helped me to be awake and aware. The interview actually went really well and I had no problem with my flights. So, it worked for me, but to tell you the truth, I would try to avoid it. But like it was said earlier, you gotta do what you gotta do and hope it all works out okay.