Nobody has gone to the top 3, or SWA in the last 5 years, hell I would say 10 years. Allegiant is cool for what it is (another time building stepping stone) but when you have 3 year regional FOs weighing the option of going to Allegiant or not, it can't be that great. Maybe that will change when the new contract is negotiated but as of now it is a place to build 121 time in an Airbus until United calls.

Again it may change, but you're talking about two huge blows to commercial aviation (9/11 and 2008) that the airlines still haven't recovered from. That means there are thousands of overly qualified applicants with thousands of hours of jet time, or jet 121 time. That puts freight 135 at the bottom of the list of guys to choose from. Right now, you have to put in a lot of work, for the span of probably years to go anywhere but Allegiant from AMF. Wanna go JetBlue or Virgin, better have multiple internal recs, do at least two job fairs and hope to god somebody blue darts you. Then you get put in a waiting room where 4 other guys are interviewing that have 6,000 hours with 3,000 jet pic...