I'm at Ameristar, and we were hiring strictly for our base in Ypsilanti, Michigan until 9-11. Now we have no plans to hire anyone in the near future. Your time exceeds our minimums, and would have looked good if we were hiring. Fortunately we have not laid anyone off, but it looks like we won't have a new hire class for quite some time. Best of luck to you in your job search. Oh yea......as far as whether you did a bad thing turning down Airnet, do what makes you happy. If you had 16,000 hours of PIC turbine with all of it in 747`s you still would have to start out in props anyway. I know many retired airline guys who should have cush jobs flying G-IV's, but they are flying piston twins because they enjoy it. Do what you love doing man.
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