Opening and closing applications

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Applications closed stops new pilots from applying to your airline, for example while you sort out a backlog or before you open. This article covers what it changes and how it works with the other joining settings.

Closing and opening applications

1. Open Staff → Airline settings → Settings → Pilots. You need the Airline settings and the operations key permission.
2. In the Joining card, tick Applications closed to close them, or untick it to open them again.
3. Press Save.

What closing changes

• The Join form is off. Your airline's page shows Applications closed and says your airline isn't taking applications right now.
• The airline directory stops showing you as hiring, even with We're recruiting ticked on the Community tab. Opening applications again brings the Hiring badge back.
• Pilots who already applied keep waiting in the review queue, and you can still approve or decline them. Your pilots aren't affected.
• Invitations you send still work: someone you invite can join while applications are closed.

The other joining settings

• Staff approve new pilots: with it on, applications wait for staff in the review queue. With it off, anyone with a verified account joins at once.
• Without a hub, nobody can join either: a new pilot needs a hub to start from. The airline's page then says it has no hub yet. Add a hub under Staff → Operations → Hubs & airports.

To ask applicants for more before they join, see Recruitment steps.

Your own questions on the join form

With Application questions on (Optional features), Staff → People → Application questions adds up to 10 questions of your own to the join form. The answers show with each application in the review queue and on the pilot's page. Changing or removing a question doesn't change answers already given. You need the Airline settings and the operations key permission.