BIZEX
JSI, now PSA
ExpressOne, later Pinnacle
ACA did till fall of 1999, IIRC. They later went to a training contract, as did some others.

Late 90's, AWAC and AE had the same published mins, 2500TT, 1000ME, preferably 500 turbine with 121 or 135 experience.

PFT back then was more the norm, NOT the exception.

I don't remember, AE, AWAC, Great Lakes, TSA, Piedmont, or Allageny (SP) charging. But the last 2 had pretty high mins as well. I don't remember MESA or any of the subsidiaries having it. Maybe the companies that made up Eagle BEFORE there was AE did. Simmons, WingsWest, Nashville Eagle, etc.

I can't remember if Mesaba or UFS, or CCAir had it or not.

Reference the above. In the early 90's, getting hired at the "commuters" to fly a turboprop was roughly $5k IIRC. COEX had a sliding scale depending on how much time one had and which aircraft one was hired into.

By the time the RJ's came online at the end of the PFT era, getting hired into a jet was right around $10k.

Also, back then many of them did conditional hiring. You interviewed at the airline, and were hired as long as you passed the flight training portion FIRST. Often times, MOST of the training (systems and sim) was done by an outsourced vendor, often FSI. After that was done, THEN you'd be sent to the airline's basic indoc course.

I REALLY wish in would have kept some of those AirInc books from "back in the day".

Pulling all this info from my Rainman memory is fatiguing.