There's no cause of action for not hiring someone you don't think will stay.

Some observations from a longtime reader of this site...

I'm in the same boat. 49 year old retired military guy who has not flown in 3 years. Reading the extensive and wide ranging opinions on this site, I've come to the conclusion that the regional life will most certainly suck. However one must choose one that minimizes the suck to the greatest extent possible and then embrace the remaining suck until a legacy calls. Minimizing the suck is key and includes location (i.e. domicile/reducing or eliminating a commute), work rules, pay, and no training contract. For those of us in our position with the requisite turbine PIC time but no recency, flow is not as important as we are looking to move on way before flow becomes an option. In the end the choice of regional, save for a few bottom feeder companies, is a personal decision based upon your personal situation. That is the reason many people will resist giving out an opinion of which is the "best regional" until they know the specifics of your situation. Even then, different people tolerate different levels of suck. Like I said, except for a few bottom feeder companies, do your research and choose one that fits you best.

AFAIK, long call reserve (12+ hr call out) does not exist at a regional.

Thanks for the info. One additional aspect I'm wondering about which you may have some thoughts -- I've been a sim IP since I left the cockpit. Any carriers, major or regional, see that as an offset for recency?

No but regionals don't care. Go to a regional where you can live in/near domicile. Get your 121 time and currency. The 121 world is 2 completely different jobs depending on whether on not you commute. It is the single biggest QOL factor, in my opinion. Good luck

I'm also pretty much decided on leaving my corporate (non-flying) job. I separated a few years ago and thought I wouldn't miss flying. Been out of a manned cockpit (KC-10) for 4 years.

If you're like me and working a job right now where you are tied to a work phone, get hundreds of emails a day about I'm not sure what and can't ever totally shut the brain off from work in case there's an emergency, then it really puts flying into perspective about the skills/training we were given to put toward doing a job that I believe in the LONG RUN will allow for better quality of life.

Nothing's perfect in a job but being able to set the parking brake and truly be done for the day is sounding better so I can have quality time at home.


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Compass has long call reserve and they use it FWIW.

Not true, OO and Compass have it.

According to the spreadsheet one of the senior PSA pilots posts, they have long call reserve also. It appears to be more senior since guys would rather sit at home on 12 hour call out than fly less favorable lines.

I did not run across many USAF pilots that did not want to fly commercial, especially heavy pilots. The Army seems to be quite different. A lot of Army pilots think it is much better than the ground job they used to do, but have no intention of flying commercial.