Originally Posted by Lakeaffect

I remember the early 2000’s were filled with furloughs and bankruptcies and 20+ year upgrades at the legacies. Pay was half what it is now. Plenty of guys and girls furloughed 2 times from United were spending their third tour starting back at the bottom of SkyWest seniority list. Hiring was practically non existent for 10 years. And then once the hiring started you had a 10s of thousands of regional captains jockeying for a lot less jobs than are available now. Times have changed for the better. But people who spent 15 years at their regional weren’t passing up any legacy, fedex, ups, or southwest job in any base. My roommate had to interview 3 times for Hawaiian in 2012. It was a 3 step interview process, 3 separate occasions over maybe a few months. He had multiple internal recommendations from family member who were pilots with Hawaiian. He finally got the job, but their were 1000’s of pilots lining up to work for $38 dollars an hour and most of them were turned down. 15 years at a regional is understandable.