Originally Posted by JMT21
It's not only the majors with internships. Skywest, ASA, Skyways, Air Willy, and American Eagle, and probably more, all have intern programs. Most will reduce their hiring mins and guarantee you an interview at some point down the road. They like you to have some of your ratings and be working towards one of those unpracticle aviation degrees
They are a good learning experiance, you are able to do some pretty nice networking (I'm sure having a letter of recomendation from a major chief pilot will help you out at the regionals), and you get travel bennies. On the downside most are unpaid and having living in a high cost of living area.
You don't need an internship to get a regional job...just the flight time. I had two friends who did unpaid 6 month internships at ACA
then got hired around 500-700 TT.
Guess what I did with those six months...CFI at my local airport, lived at home (wife not parents), got paid, got myself over 1000 hours.