Originally Posted by
friendlyskies
Thanks for the responses guys, appreciate it. My main concern is: what if the regional calls for a class date, and I turn it down because I'm stuck in the 91 contract. Will the regional see that negatively, and ruin my chance to work there later on?
It depends...if you lead them to believe you were available they might be annoyed. To avoid that problem, clearly communicate your availability in advance...they may just hire you into the pool in the meantime.
Like others have said...hiring is going to be stopping (and going into full reverse), so I'm not sure that you would WANT to be a junior guy at most regionals right now.