Pretty much. If I recall correctly in the late 90s I was told 3000TT, 500 ME, 'preferably some turbine time' to apply at SKW. Oh, and an ATP of course.

exactly. Some of these folks are misremembering some years. I know plenty of guys that got picked up in 07, and early 08 with 250. If a guy had 500 back then, people were wondering why he wasn’t already at the regionals.

Nobody knows what the fck they’re talking about here. Nobody knows the future.

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I believe that was around the late 08’ timeframe. In 2005-7 or so most “good” regionals were all pretty much 1000/100. There were a few that went down to 750/100 or even 600/50, but that was the lowest around that time. It was prop airlines like piedmont that went all the way to wet commercial as there were a few hired at 250/6, but that wasn’t until around 2008 or so.

Even places like Colgan had a pay for training setup in 2005(?)ish. You PAID for a beech 1900 type essentially for the job.

IIRC, getting hired at a place like ASA into the 200 was totally doable at 400 hours, but at least 100 of those hours needed to be multi.

I wouldn’t put it past some regionals to try and renew PFT.

No doubt. In the 90’s, ASA was PFT, and that was with mins of at least 2500/1500.

agreed. That’s why ATP was so popular during that time frame. Price was still reasonable, and you got enough multi time to go the regionals with a wet commercial.

There were some regionals who hired at 250-400 after the late '90s. Others stuck to their guns for 1000.

But if hiring was slow, competitive times went up quickly (ie 2002, 2008).