Just wanted to stick my head in here for a moment and report back as I threatened to do, if I can dodge all the swinging purses.

Interviewed yesterday. Six guys, I was certainly the youngest and probably the least experienced at mid 30s and ~7000 hours. 4 were former 121...1 ex-CMR, 1 ex-World, 1 ex-Ryan, and one who I gathered had flown RJs for quite a while some time ago and had been military prior to that. One 135 charter jet C/A and me. Interview was with the hiring manager and a senior F/O...very much as advertised, just a "get to know you" conversation, very pleasant and laid back.

Got an email hiring me into a pool the same day. As of now, the word is the next class will be in August, but of course I'd imagine that could change at the drop of a hat. Obviously, for my part, I'll have to see how the upgrade situation looks when a class is offered, but I had a fine experience and didn't see any indication of poor morale or unhappy employees. YMMV.

Thanks to everyone who helped with information along the way.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming....*ding ding*