Cold... its not about how good you are or resumes or skills or quality of experience.

Its about meat.

A few years ago there was all this meat on the street. It is a fact of life that DL widebody drivers on furlogh get hired before guys with only piston time.

Even for piston jobs.

So nobody got a job at 300TT. Not even a CFI job. Now all the major guys are recalled; or at B6, or FL, or NetJets or EK. The flowbacks are flowing through again. All the ATP meat have RJ jobs. All the experienced CFI meat have RJ jobs. All that is left is fresh meat with wet tickets.

You're meat. I'm meat.

Airlines like thier meat well done.

But they'll take it raw when that's all there is.