Looking for Free Advice... Which Regional Would You Join?

[Captain Morgan]

Ameriflight has a Dallas Base if cargo is an option. Then again, they might not be hiring right now either.

I just checked the job openings section on Ameriflights web page and there is nothing posted at all. I don't know if the page isn't working, being updated, or if there is nothing. Good luck!

 

[kommutrdog]

Stay out of aviation.

Two words:

Peak Oil. Google "Matthew Simmons". He has forgotten more about the oil industry than most will ever know. He's also an oil investment banker, not some "end-of-the-world" nut.

Stay out of flying. Period. It's a dead end.

 

[white knuckle]

As stated above, avoid the regionals at this time. Keep building time and finish your degree. This will open many doors in the future. Best of luck to you and keep on truckin.

 

[CALRepublic]

Everyone says avoid the regionals, easier said than done. With your experience level unlikely you'll get a good coporate job. You might get a corporate gig, but it'll be flying a prop or something small, probably fly 200-300 hours a year. Not the best way to build time, unfortunately the regionals are a neccessary evil, 1000 jet hours/year. The reginal job SUCKS, but there's no way around it.

Go to a regional, suck it up like most of us did, get some jet time, and then start looking for that kick ass corporate gig. Wanna fly Coca cola's G-V or McDonald's Global Express, you'll need 6000 TT hrs just to have a shot. Unfortunately companies like that want lots of int'l time, the regionals don't offer any.

 

[BoilerUP]

Everyone says avoid the regionals, easier said than done. With your experience level unlikely you'll get a good coporate job. You might get a corporate gig, but it'll be flying a prop or something small, probably fly 200-300 hours a year. Not the best way to build time, unfortunately the regionals are a neccessary evil, 1000 jet hours/year. The reginal job SUCKS, but there's no way around it.

Go to a regional, suck it up like most of us did, get some jet time, and then start looking for that kick ass corporate gig. Wanna fly Coca cola's G-V or McDonald's Global Express, you'll need 6000 TT hrs just to have a shot. Unfortunately companies like that want lots of int'l time, the regionals don't offer any.

I'd say one's odds of getting hired on at a good to excellent corporate job (widebody international bizjet notwithstanding) are directly related to 1. networking and 2. previous corporate experience instead of sheer total flight time.

There are more than a few ADMs and CPs biased against airline pilots in general and regional pilots specifically for a perceived lack of professionalism, skills and experience. Besides, career corporate pilots know they fly half or fewer hours annually compared to their airline counterparts...

 

[WSurf]

I'd say one's odds of getting hired on at a good to excellent corporate job (widebody international bizjet notwithstanding) are directly related to 1. networking and 2. previous corporate experience instead of sheer total flight time.

Yes, unless you know someone you'd have a better chance at being a Brain Surgeon.

 

[time builder]

I just checked the job openings section on Ameriflights web page and there is nothing posted at all. I don't know if the page isn't working, being updated, or if there is nothing. Good luck!

Might be a couple months before AMF resumes hiring where they just lost a bunch of DHL flights. Then again, they'll probably pick up a good amount of business in the form of UPS in the next couple months. Just wait for the dust to settle.

 

[BoDEAN]

If you have to go to a regional right now I would go to SKYW or Republic. I dont know for sure the hiring status currently, but last I knew SKYW was still taking people.

Republic has stopped hiring til the fall.

 

[414Flyer]

I agree, now is the wrong time to begin an airline career.

Go do something cool that can work into a good flying job, like work for BLM or USFS as a wildland firefighter, then apply from within for pilot jobs with them.

 

[waka]

Stay out of aviation.

Two words:

Peak Oil. Google "Matthew Simmons". He has forgotten more about the oil industry than most will ever know. He's also an oil investment banker, not some "end-of-the-world" nut.

Stay out of flying. Period. It's a dead end.

Not to say that there is an unlimited supply nor am I saying that we shouldn't pursue alternatives to oil but, my Google searches revealed, according to oil industry insiders, that Simmons is indeed that doomsday whack job marching around with the proverbial "The End is Near" sandwich board.

For example;