Originally Posted by InsightfulAv8r

Greetings, fellow aviation enthusiast.

I need some advice. I have been in flight instructing for over 18 years and have around 5000 hours. Last fall, I decided to take a step towards the airlines for the first time. It was a major career change but a necessary one. I decided to get my multi license gain some experience in the twin and complete my ATPCTP class. I passed my written exam and I now have 39 hours multi and was given a CJO by a regional airline in January of this year. Originally they quoted a 6 to 9 month wait for classes. Shortly after it became a nine month wait. In the past couple weeks, I was given a notice of a 18 month or longer wait due to current circumstances. A major slowdown, of course. A coworker of mine (barely 1500 hrs) just recently went in for an interview with another carrier and was hired and given a class date for this coming June. I was shocked. When I started this process, I put my applications out for everybody on airline apps. No one has bitten with the exception of this one company due to connections I had and frontier which required more multi time which I don’t have and turbine time. I don’t know where to go next. I can’t see myself waiting 18 months for things to get started. No applications are panning out. I am currently still flight instructing but again 18 months seems like a really long time. Does anybody have any advice on this. I understand networking is key for this. What tree do I have to shake to get things to happen?