I don't recall any regionals being too particular about XC time, I suspect they all just want 100 hours or so, if they even specify an amount (check their web sites to be sure).

135 time is good, but only up to a point in ASEL. It wold make you more competitive than a 1000 hour ASEL CFI, but ME time is and always has been the holy grail for regional employment when jobs are hard to find.

Especially with congress making requirements to "emphasize" ME experience in airline hiring, I would be looking into MEI or another 135 job. When you hit 1200 with 135 experience you should be competitive for 135 operations with larger airplanes.

Of course apply to regionals in the meantime, but any non-bottom-feeder regional is going to require 100 ME, and 300-500 will probably be the competitive numbers.

I got my first airline job under similar circumstances, and several hundred ME hours is what made the phone ring.