Originally Posted by
ZeroTT
Most people hiring regional pilots have an incentive to jeopardize regional feeds and even DL/AA/UA have an incentive to hose their competitors.
But everyone is looking for talent - I suspect 91/135 backgrounds will get more attention. And I suspect 91/135 pilots will be much more interested if interviews are plentiful and rapid seniority progression is a given.
The problem with those cush 91/135 gigs is that they’re great until they’re gone. Owners die, decide to sell the plane and go with Flex or Netjets instead, etc. And when that happens, there’s no government scheme to save your job like you’ll get at the airlines.
And those unicorn 91/135 gigs are the extreme minority, anyway. Unless you’re someone who genuinely enjoys wandering the country for weeks at a time with little predictability and (let’s get real) no family, the airlines are gonna be better than the vast majority of 135 gigs.