Who's to say you didn't stress yourself out so much about missing your flight that you ended up making yourself sick? :) Yeah, that's it...

I haven't heard anything about Piedmont slowing down hiring at all. I think they're still running classes through with about 20-30 people. We have a commuter policy also. Work rules are half decent here....could be better, could be worse.

How many legs would you fly in a typical day at Piedmont? Also are there any regionals that are still requiring a training contract?

You might consider Mesaba as well... they're still hiring a lot and getting a lot of new airplanes, and have a commuter clause. Plus you can get based Junior out of MEM on any a/c except the -200, which means you can hitch a ride on Fedex from pretty much anywhere in the states.

TSA doesn't

you don't make it to work, your fault

you no come to work, you sick!

We fly anything from 2 (reserves might fly one leg days every now and again...but that's rare) to 6 legs (rarely we might fly 7....I've only heard that happen on a handful of times). Six gets a bit long when the weather's crappy, otherwise I don't really mind lots of flying. Monthly we fly 75-100 hrs actual. We don't have a training contract.