Originally Posted by
NWA320pilot
How long have you worked in the airline industry? I instructed for almost 2 years working my butt off and flew over 2000 hours. During this time I also did any additional flying I could scrounge up to increase multi and TT. I then got my first regional job and promptly got furloughed (to never be recalled by that company). After a while I landed another regional job that lasted for almost 10 years before being hired by a major. The airline business has always been cyclic....
As for the luck part, all jobs have that. When I hired on at NWA they interviewed over 12,000 applicants for about 400 positions. I have no idea how many applications they actually received by I count myself lucky to have made it through the process successfully.
I am going to assume you were trying to get into this career around the early 90's? How do you compare now to then? I have heard and read that it was just wicked in the early 90's. Upgrading on a metro took 4000-5000 total time. Pan Am and Eastern pilots looking for work, and the first Gulf war going on made it tough.