Dom;
Not sure I would say plentiful. There are somewhere around 10k applicants right now at the majors. They all have the same number as they are the same 10k. It might be under that number now. A bunch of those won't be hired for one reason or another. A huge number of those are flying Rj's and will simply create another hole somewhere else if they get hired.

When I got hired, they had over 60k applicants. That, is a lot. Almost all of those had a lot more experience than the current 10k do now.

I am back at UAL now and a lot of it is HR centric for hiring, instead of just your resume. In the past I would have said this is backa$$word. After the last year working at a couple of overseas gigs, I am not so sure anymore. I might go for HR. Hard for me to admit that, but in hindsight...........

We just hired an EK guy.

Thanks to all for the feedback. Im glad we have tools like this forum and we can separate fact from speculation. Thanks again!!!

Only one I know of that blacklists expats is sadly us, FedEx.

Our postal contract has a clause where you must have resided in the States the most recent 5 years before being hired and the only exception made is for us military personnel. No wiggle room at all on this.

But I'd think you be ok applying to UAL DAL etc.

I think what you're seeing is the vast majority of legacy hiring right now is military/flow-through/furlough recall with 10,000+ qualified applicants competing for the remaining few "off the street" slots. Many of the same folks are presumably fighting each other for the relatively small number of classes at JB/WN/Spirit. I know plenty of highly qualified captains at my carrier who have had apps in for quite a while & have not gotten any calls.

For the record
UAL has 13750 apps on file and the average pilot hired or having a conditional job offer, has around 7745 hrs.
That's per stats as of 4/20/16

Which includes :

Military 30 percent , RJ drivers 60 percent and 10 percent all others



BTW the average in the late 90s was a lot less ( 3500 hrs with 1500 TPIC) as per the same HR person that has been recruiting the past 20 years at TK.

Obviously
thanks to the lost decade or so which made many stuck flying RJs

Late 90's had a lot more Mil guys, with a lot fewer hours than civilians, which drove down the average number of hours. Probably 50-60% military for a half a dozen years. The civilians tended to have a lot more broad experience than now, lots of previous jobs, and lots of time.

I think now there are much fewer mil guys, and a lot of the RJ guys have a bunch of hours.

I have never heard of any blacklisting of expats. To get the expat gig, you had to have a lot of prior experience as well.

Definitely not blacklisted out of the Middle East. I know some guys who went to UAL; some went to SWA, myself included.

My recommendation to get noticed... have someone look over your application. A number of interview prep agencies offer this service... definitely worth it.

THIS!

There are thousands of qualified guys. One wrong date can kick your app out of the stack. Make a $100 phone call to a pro to get you on the right path.

I am an expat and have had an interview inquiry from SunCountry. Could not make the interview due to workload here and logistics.

The biggest issue with coming back is logistics of travel and lining up leave with the interview dates or job fairs. Its tough.