HAHA.

I was wondering what had ever happened to SAAbrowski!!! I thought maybe he deserted our wonderful community in favor of the enemy forums (jetcareers, flight info, BOO, etc). APC

 

It seems to me that every 30 years there is manic hiring boom. The 1960's saw 250 hour new hires at the majors. We just saw the age of the 250 hour regional pilot.

I guess that would make it every 40 years.

Skyhigh

 

You will be able to find a job but it will only be at a place that no one would go to under normal hiring conditions, which means you'll be stuck. The others will not be hiring for a long time and there's actually talks about more furloughs at the regionals. The best part is once you actually make it to an airline 6 to 24 months from now you'll be making 20,000 with a very bleak future. Good luck! I can't imagine why anyone would be looking or training for the regionals.

 

Wow. Begin ridiculously high post count...NOW!

 

I missed this place, I love you people

 

Even if there is a small amount of hiring is a CFI even competitive? There are lots of very experienced high time pilots out there scraping for employment. Yes there may be a trickle of hiring, how will you stack up to the competition.

 

we wont stack up unless you have tons of hours. ive pretty much accepted the fact that teaching is gonna be my job for a very long time. my ~1000/100 doesnt mean crap anymore. its called.....the rigors of CFIing....

 

I would say things are bleak, but I think there are two important things to consider. First, airlines entered this downturn with lean staffing. Even though there was a hiring boom in 2007, many weren't overstaffed when furloughs began. With few exceptions, individual company furloughs haven't been too high.

Second, the age 65 retirements may come a little sooner than we expect. While many may work past 60, I have heard from an AA pilot that most in his group don't expect to work past 62 or 63. That might bring back some industry wide hiring next year, or it may not.

I'm not an optimist by nature, but things could turn around sooner than we think. Still, I conceded it's pretty gloomey out there. Better than it was in January to March though.

 

Not quite. In a year you'd have another 1000 hours so you would have 2000 hours, which is more than respectable for most regionals. Most good regionals like guys with a good amount of CFI time. CFI as much as you can in the coming months and rack up those twin times if you can. And get the ATP. It will give you the edge.

Looking at all the latest indications, 90% of the economists are predicting economic recovery by the end of this year so we'll see if airlines will start hiring again in a year's time.

Just know airline business is cyclical and very unstable. So if you are looking for any type of job security or guarantees that you will make to the majors, forget about it. There are guys out there right now who spent 9 to 10 years at a regional and left their regional CA job to go to the majors and a good many of them were furloughed last year and some are back to being an FO on another regional making about $24,000 a year with a family to support.

 

I could see some hiring in Spring 2010 for the summer peak season if the economy truly turns around in 4th quarter of this year...that's the earliest firm timeframe where I'd feel comfortable predicting some hiring...there seems to still be a trickle of folks retiring and just getting out of the industry, medicals busted, et cetera...

Why don't you do 135 once you hit 135 PIC mins? I think they're still hiring...might add some more variety to your background so you can say "you've done it all." Just a thought!!!