Originally Posted by
Njflyguy
Aside from the RPA contract, why do you think those two limit your chances of going to a major? Part 121 turbine time is what they're looking for. you'll get that at those 2 airlines as much as any other regional/part 121. Did you (or anyone here) head to Sun-n-Fun this week? Just kicked off yesterday. There will be recruiter desks set up in the exhibit hangars. Curious to hear what kind of feedback they give for fresh 1500 hour candidates these days.
Despite all the drama that seems to be coming from interactions with this individual, he is not "wrong", per se. Because SKW and RPA fly for multiple carriers, it has been seen that they throttle those trying to make the jump to the carriers in which that regional operates flights for. Ideally, if one were to have a desired legacy carrier to end up at, you work for a competing regional. It is difficult to do that when you fly for all three and each carrier might view that pilot applicant as necessary at the regional level to maintain capacity. So, they hire elsewhere. i.e. Delta hiring from AA wholy owned or CommutAir, AA hiring from Endeavor or CommuteAir, UA hiring from Envoy or Endeavor, and so-on.