Originally Posted by
yancharlie
I don't know his exact times, but i know for sure we are pretty close to about the same times. Which for me is 3,910 TT, 3,600 Dash 8 100(37seats)/ Dash 8 300(50seats), 121 airline flying mostly up in the north east of the U.S. I don't know what other experiences beside the international crossing you looking for, but anybody that can handle north east airspace year round obtains some valuable flying experiences. And there is always room to learn other kinds of operations such as omni which is a challenging one i understand it to be . Well hopefully the company mentally toward Tprop drivers changes sometimes, because saying to someone company don't want Tprop anymore is kind of leaning toward being arrogant.
Entitlement rears it's ugly head.
Companies are free to set minimums as they choose.
For a long time jetBlue required PIC turbine in airplanes over 20k MGTOW. Eliminating Jetstream/1900/Metro captains from the fray.
AirTran required 500PIC Part 121. 135/91 PIC did not count.
Some airlines require college, some do not.
The fact is that hiring demographics can and will change. You seem lucky to have gotten on with what I assume is PDT at 310TT (Judging by your times above) which by any account is extremely low time. 7 years ago you wouldn't have even gotten a sniff from most regionals at that level of experience.
That doesn't make a company arrogant, they just know what kind of experience they can attract.
Airlines don't lower minimums because they want to, it's because they have to.