Originally Posted by
xtreme
I'll just touch on this, i'm sure other people have more to chime in on in terms of where the industry is going, but i'll leave that up to them... It depends where you want to go. Gojets is hiring right now but you wouldn't want to go there. I'm sure with Republic getting more 190's, it won't be long before they start hiring. Again, that's a road you don't want to go down. As well as Mesa but I think they are just barely getting by now. As far as other regionals...I don't know what alot of them got coming up. I have heard that Air wisconsin, which is burning through furloughs at a pretty quick rate might be hiring sometime next spring.
Actually Republic is planning on furloughing 150-400 more pilots by fall. I have 4 friends that fly for them (2 still flying and 2 furloughed) and this is what is being talked about right now with management. However I wouldn't put Republic in the GoJets category yet because if the pilots are able to negotiate a minimum of JetBlue payrates for the 190, then the other payrates will have to increase as well making everything all better once again. As a furloughed pilot I too am hoping that things pick up within a year or maybe less but I'm not holding my breath. Good luck Whacker77 in what you decide to do as well as to everyone else who is struggling!