You guys are all to young to know or remember when UNITED (yea that legacy one) put adds in the newspaper looking for people interested in becoming a pilot...

There are several Foreign carriers that have ab initio programs...as does Mesa.

The thing I have a hard time believing is that if ANY major airline called you TODAY with whatever time you had...you would say NO, in the interest of safety...I think I should build more time flying checks at night, flight instructing, or flying at a crappy regional...give me a break.

Oh, yea...flight instructing for $7.50 an hour for a few more years...right. If you know your history...in the early 90's you needed 4000-6000 to get on with most regionals (and that was to fly a turbo-prop). Glad to see that you have all agreed that 1000 hours is now the new safety margin for flying!