Originally Posted by
CaptDave
This is honestly my biggest concern. While I know I'm in good standing at all prior employers, it's hard to know exactly which company works for you and how they run their ship until you actually jump on board. At that point, you either take it or leave it. Either way, it sticks with you.
Not 121 current, ATM, but I've never had any issues or failures during training, never busted a check ride or knowingly/intentionally violated a reg. FAA/Pilot record is blemish free, other than the work history at a couple of regionals that just didn't suit my life. Unfortunately, that is an HR blemish.
The low times with three types comes from starting my airline career with 650(?)TT back in 07. Rough times during the recession and didn't even attempt to go back until 2015. Even then, I took the first one that called without knowing too much about the company. (Example: 2wks into INDOC at EDV and was told the company consisted of Pinnacle and Mesaba crews....#mindblown) LOL. I was so anxious to get back flying that I just mass submitted resumes and took the first thing.
Regrets are like.....well, I've got'em. I'd like to learn from my failures and move forward with my life and career before I'm too old to do anything about it.
Really enjoying all the responses from everyone, too. Keep'em coming.
So you left Endeavor after two weeks because you didn’t like the heritage of their crews? I’m not sure any mid 20s/30s HR professional screening your application is going to understand that... in recent history (since at least 16) Endeavor has been a highly regarded airline on the regional level.
The part I find about your path most intriguing is that XJT was a top regional back in the day and now Endeavor is the top regional for pay/QOL and Republic has a new contract that puts them on parity in two more years.
What I’d worry about with your resume is the appearance of a lack of follow through professionally.
The good news is that most of the regionals you listed are desperate for pilots and will give most anyone a shot at training and let the dice roll.
If you’re even remotely serious about a 121 career I’d probably tell you to stick with the AA Wholly Owned regionals unless you’re going to be content being a regional lifer elsewhere. Unless the pilot shortage gets pretty bad your historical lack of ability to stick it out in 121 jobs is probably going to make a major leery of you unless you have years of solid work history at your next regional... and even then it could be a crap shoot. You probably want to go someplace with a no interview flow through to a major as a backup. The AA Wholly Owneds are the only ones offering that. If you apply to all three, my guess is that one or two will offer you an interview.