With Delta hiring 240 this year, Compass may be getting ready to see 25% of their pilots leave through the flow. I would think they would be starting to take a serious look at hiring. I believe the recent Delta announcement was that they expected to hire toward the end of this summer, meaning that if Compass is potentially going to see pilots leaving as early as 3-4 months from now, they would be starting to hire sometime soon in anticipation of that.

I have heard that they have hired higher-time furloughed pilots in the past, so I'm not sure if I'm "overqualified" or not. It is really frustrating for me since my furlough is most likely going to last at least a few years. It's not like I'm looking to go there and immediately jump ship. It seems like a decent place to go work for a few years. There really isn't much else out there right now anyway. Yes, DL, JB, Allegiant, Virgin America are hiring, but all 100-200 pilots each. Nothing really too wide-spread and continuous yet. In a few years when guys start hitting 65, I think every regional is going to have people "jumping ship" regardless of whether they were hired with 1,500 hours or 5,000 hours.