Originally Posted by
Mustang62
I interviewed in January and was offered a class date in late March, but couldn’t take it due to another commitment. So I was scheduled in May. The previous commitment fell through, so I called to see about an earlier date. I was told that they’d push dates back, but not forward. Consequently, I started looking elsewhere and found several 121 gigs that started pretty much right away. Decided to wait for 9E, but then the part 91/135 contract offers started coming in. It’s going to be tough to leave that part of the private stuff behind. It seems that everyone except Endeavor is hurting for pilots.
We aren't hurting for new hires, we are hurting for captains. We ran the well dry of qualified FO's willing to put up with New York as captains and then kept trying to send more there... It helped create a shortage of captains. A wise bidding senior FO can make about as much as a reserve captain with much better quality of life here (and that's without factoring in the suck of commuting to a co-domicile New York)