Originally Posted by
BURflyer
Who cares if you lateral, as long as you're doing what makes you happy. As far as those FDX, SWA jobs you think guys at the majors with time on type haven't already applied? Who do you think gets priority? Now is the time more than ever to find a comfortable regional because you're more than likely going to be there for more than a few years. It would suck to be stuck at Mesa, at least they're putting the last 150 on reserve in ORD and IAD out of their misery. Good for those guys, they're probably going to get better qol working at Home Depot.
Is gojet a regional you're comforatble with?
Anyway, if you think that the guys and girls from United, Continental, ETC with 73 types and time get priority over somebody who doesn't, you're fooling yourself. Southwest hires people based off their personalities. If you have a thousand hours of TPIC, you know how to fly. Does a thousand in type help your flying in said aircraft? Of course, but SWA isn't like a regional that hires based off of your chances of making it through training. They base it off of return on investment and, most importantly, how you're going to fit into the company. On the ROI side, you're right that it's good that somebody might have an extra 1000 hours on type, but that is balanced out by how likeliy it's going to be that you're going to leave back to United when you get recalled (likely or not, I should say, that's going to try to be determined during the interview).
You don't have any better chance getting a job if you have 10000 hours, 5000 of those in a 73 than somebody who has 2500 hours in RJs.