I disagree with those who call for gobs and gobs of multi time in order to get hired.

1. I can appreciate the need for total time. I have gained an incrementally large amount of experience, knowledge, and decision making skills that I gained since acquiring my Commercial cert at 207 hours, and not, as a CFI around ATP minimums. I would not have wanted me in a jet with 300TT, although I would have gladly taken the job at the time.
Experience=safety, and there is nothing like more total time to build experience. Is my 1200 enough? If you think I need more to be a competent regional FO, so be it. I will continue to CFI and look for 135 work to build hours.

2. When asked how to build multi time, you said to MEI some more. I completely disagree with this. While some multi time is valuable, after a while it becomes silly. How much more does doing engine outs with students in beat up Seminoles teach you than teaching someone how to land? Or to fly on instruments?

3. Multi time is becoming harder and harder to come by. In years past, MEI'ing was a legitimate way to build time, because the lawyers and doctors of the world would buy Barons, 310's, and Seneca's when they had it made. Now those are being replaced with Cirruses, Columbias, etc as the "aircraft of choice" when you had it made in life. I teach at a large part 61 flight school and have plenty of opportunities to teach in glass cockpit diamonds, cirruses, etc. I have experience managing systems, FMS's (if you can call the GFC 700 an FMS), teaching ADM and cockpit management in these aircraft. Multi? Not so much Multi students are few and far between, simply the aviation industry has changed so much.

4. Looking for "saftey pilot work" sitting in the right seat of a king air or something similar has been bashed on countless times in other threads as not getting paid to do something you should be paid for. This i agree with, to a point.

5. As others have pointed out on this thread, the days of flying boxes in an aztec are going, not gone perhaps, but on their way out. The vast majority of frieght work is going to FEDEX and UPS (or going digital)...even mighty airnet is struggling as of late.

The point of all this is to say that yes, experience is invaluable, but why weigh multi time so heavily, when junk seminoles cost $200-$300 an hour, for the purpose of getting a $20k a year airline job?

There are certainly other ways of testing for the skills necessary to be PIC on an RJ besides coming up with an arbitrary amount of ME time.