Yea, you’re over qualified for regionals. With your time, get that TPIC ASAP! That's all the matters for you.

Plus, here’s a dirty little secret that you're bumping up against on the back end... There's a "happy" time range, between 4000 to 6000 hours. After that, there is a consensus that thinks, "ok, dude has 9,000 hours. Why does he want to come here and fly an E190 outta Philly and make south of 50G's for the first three years?" I was incredulous when I heard that one.

It's happened to many of us in the generation tho, you are desperate to log that time, have your head down and fly those bids, and then you wake up one morning to reconcile your log book again after a few months and one day you are sitting on some high flight time. For most of us, the last 3-4 years should have been in the right seat of a narrow body with "________" Airlines. But here we are.

Is "high time" a deal breaker, no, but there is that sweet spot, and anything other than that starts to become a liability. You think I’m splitting hairs? Try sorting through six thousand qualified, ready to go pilots, all who exceed the times by a mile, and half who drink beers with so and so at XYZ airlines, then you'll see the microscopic hairs that get split between candidates.

So it's all beyond your control, get into the left seat of something with a couple turbines. Quickly.

Curious, where have you been flying to find 5000+ in your log book, only 250 TPIC and you're looking at a regional? Lots of corp/135?

Oh, and upside to regionals? It's not flight instructing, you push a button and coffee shows up in your hand, sweet! That's all I got.