Originally Posted by AerChungus

If I were doing it all over again, I would have focused more on how cyclical the industry is. Right now, FO slots are few and far between. They are hiring waves of FOs in short bursts and if you're on the front of the wave, then great, you have good seniority and you fly. If you're at the back of the wave, you're a casualty of the Captain shortage and you are on reserve forever until you quit to go to Frontier with 150 hours to show for the last 6 months.

Why do you think new hire Republic FOs have been flying so much? Because Republic didnt hire from October 2022 until like May 2023 and the people you are hearing about who are flying 80 hours a month were people who went to class in May and finished IOE in August. Ill bet all those September 2022 hires who were the plug for 7 months would tell you a very different story about their time-building efforts.
That being said, I would look at the airlines that recently haven't run much of any classes. I don't keep super current on who that is, maybe Endeavor and CommuteAir, but I would say if you really want to build time fast in the era of CA-shortage regionals, you need to have as few new hire FOs senior to you as possible. If you hear people consistently saying "X regional sucks, they haven't been hiring because there's no flight time and all the FOs are quitting", put your app in to that one right away because soon enough, they are going to need to hire again and you'll be at the front of the wave.