Is this what it's come down to?

[Draginass]

I think the hiring situation is going to be bad for the next 7 years or so. Thousands of heavy pilots on the street. One aviation consultant group sees a lot of regionals being sold off from their major before they get stuck with a bunch of inefficient RJs, high fuel prices, and depressed ticket prices. In a few years there's going to be a glut of inefficient RJs and RJ operators and a lot are going to go bust.

Even if you get hired by an airline, don't consider it a career, just a job . . . . and keep your resume updated. Retirement . . . forget it, it up to you. Management considers you in the same class as the Chinese guy making trinkets to sell in Walmart.

 

[labbats]

Hey, wow. An optomist.

 

[khsgt]

KEEP AT IT!

Scubbari,

Even today there are some getting hired with only 1500 at the regionals...just keep at it, everybody will get their shot. Don't get frustrated and don't quit! I got on with a regional in november of last year with 1530TT. Took me a year and 100's of resume's/updates, but when they start calling, it seems it is all at once. When it rains, it pours, but when its a draught, its really a draught. Just wait for the change.

Greasy side down!

 

[350DRIVER]

I bust my ass, spend 50k+ to get ratings, build time, give up my life, and with 1500tt, and 200me, according to my boss, I'm not even qualified to fly an Aztec, without

Talk to our favorite female poster on the board, English who has ties to get people hired right at 1500TT as a captain in a CJ (citation jet) .. Oh she has, she has, and she has seen it first hand!!!!

pretty comical thread with regards to her posts on the general board to say the least.

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[ArcticFlier]

One thing that hasn't been mentioned (or if it has, I missed it) is that employment is a lagging indicator of how the economy is doing. It's on the upswing. Just be patient, and it'll happen. That's not to say you don't have to continue busting your a$$ for a bit longer. I got hired in '91, at the tail end of a hiring boom. It's all cycles, man.

Hang in there,

AF