Originally Posted by
bottlenose
Before anyone says that your time is low, I know several personally who were hired with 2000hrs + or - some, and selected to interview on their first time applying. Military time, but still, it is not unheard of at all. I'm in the same boat as you, relatively low time, also went to VIB, not a peep. This is my third time applying.
As I can see the problem so far is that some regionals are imploding (envoy, xjet, rah. etc), so most of their senior FOs and Jr CAs decide to go to Spirit, Allegiant, Jet Blue and Frontier. Instead of waiting for a legacy call, they just go and make another stop before their preferred carrier call them. I personally know a guy that left enjoy to go to JetBlue, six months later he left for AA.
That, of course, increase the pool of applicant and competitive qualifications.