Originally Posted by
naley70b
Thanks all for the input.
I kind of figured it wouldn't be the place to go, i've got a piedmont interview next week and i'm hoping for that position.
Hopefully someday the climate of regional airlines will change and pilots will be appreciated for the highly skilled professionals that they are.
New guys with wet commercial tickets are hardly highly skilled...no more so than a surgeon candidate fresh out of med school...it takes time. If the industry(labor) as a whole made it more difficult to obtain that position(ATP mins for hire?) you'd see salaries not only go up but more importantly stay up. Not knocking you but when your replacement can be trained from 0 hours to regional FO in a few months to pass a canned checkride, there will always be someone with SJS willing to give it a shot for equal to less than what you were making.