Originally Posted by
rickair7777
ULCC experience will not make you more competitive for the majors, 121 TPIC will do that and it will probably come faster at a regional.
Also... your opportunities to acquire hot-ticket resume bullets will be better at a regional. Training, union, and check airman slots can go junior at a regional but at any major it's likely to be the purview of crusty old CA's. There are some exceptions; I'm guessing sunny isn't one of them but you might want to see if you can find that out.
This might have been the case in the past, but based on my recent anecdotal evidence, I don't think it is as clear cut any more. I know a bunch of captains and LCAs at regionals who are struggling to get a call from anyone. But after my recent new type, we (with a bunch of my new hire classmates) are getting calls literally within a week of clicking the new type box. And I am talking about United, Delta and so on, with no 121 PIC time. A friend of mine just did a touch and go at an ULCC, he got called to a legacy interview before he finished IOE after he updated his app with an Airbus type. 0 121 PIC.
Recent 121 training event seems to be very valuable. And I am going to guess based on our attrition numbers, a non-regional type seems to have quite a bit of value.