Originally Posted by
BURflyer
TPIC is TPIC it's going to open a whole lot more doors than thousands of jet SIC but if your ultimate goal is to fly for a legacy airline that has thousands of JET PIC applicants your chances will not be so good out of a 1900 operator, I had many many CAs that I flew with that couldn't find a decent place with the exception of one who was in training dept for a long time. It's a different market than it was when all you had were tprop regionals.
Sounds like you've got it made having dad flying for a major carrier, other's aren't so lucky.
Well, those types of airlines that were discriminating between TPIC and JPIC are going to have a problem in the near future due to the many furloghs that have been going on and people leaving the industry. They could afford to be picky. In the near future they may find themselves in a tight spot. ALPA and AOPA still project a pilot shortage of about 3,000 pilots due to the adjusted mandatory retirement age.
Maybe it's a problem with the CA that you speak of and not the lack of JPIC.