Thread: ACMI to Majors?
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Old 07-31-2025 | 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
1. The crazy hiring days are over, things are getting back to normal and that means turbine PIC is king.

2. Even more so since all of the legacies kind of got burned with social experiments in pilot hiring, and seem to be reverting to traditional, established industry criteria for sorting applicants.

Very roughly, in order...

Fighter time.
Other Mil FW PIC
MIL RW (with appropriate FW time from somewhere).
121 Jet PIC
135 Jet PIC
91 Jet PIC.

121/135 Turboprop PIC is in there somewhere too.

All SIC is lower on the list. If you work the job fairs and other events, you might have a shot at a decent major job with just SIC but even that's hard to predict right now and I bet it would take years if ever.

Bottom line, you probably need to make a move, even if it's night 135 turboprop cargo... I think you can get away with turboprop PIC because you've already demonstrated you can be trained to fly a big jet (that's not a transition everyone makes smoothly).
Based on who is getting hired from my airline, heavy intl SIC seems to be very valuable. Up there with regional 121 PIC time when comparing how my regional buddies are doing.
And I think you are overrating mil RW unless you have pretty substantial FW experience (that is not just regional SIC).

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