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Old 01-20-2021, 12:32 PM
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Your 121 experience would have been in the ballpark for a top/mid tier airline a year ago. You have all the tickets punched, and LCA is a big plus, TPIC maybe a hair light. How many types do you have?

I suspect you can probably stay competitive if you get some kind of turbine job on the side, ideally PIC in something with a type. Keep chipping away at TPIC and I'd guess in 2-3 years somebody will call, maybe sooner if you apply to ULCC/ACMI.

If you get to 4-5 years out of 121 you might be considered "stale" from a training perspective, so you should evaluate the industry continually along the way... if it looks like sustained stagnation, the place to wait that out is in 121 so you're all current and ready to go when things start moving again. I've seen that play out before.
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