Direct Entry Captains at Regionals
 

Are there any regional airlines hiring direct entry captains right now?
No gossip please just hard facts.
Thanks for the info

Fact: Not at Colgan/Mesaba/Pinnacle

I am pretty confident that the answer (industry wide) is going to be "no". The industry is still in recovery mode from the previous layoffs. Most FO's that stayed accumulated enough time to meet the ATP and company minimums. Qualified pilots are plentiful right now. Next year might be a different story.

Cape Air is. Not sure if they are considered a "Regional" though?

Nope, at least nothing with a turbine engine attached to it...better luck next year.

Not that I know of. But unless you're on some sort of epic quest for TPIC, you will probably have better QOL and similar or better pay as an FO at many jet regionals (after year one).

Thank you all for your insights

Is that FAA chick friend of yours still asking?

Flightinfo.com Hangar

At ASA our ops don't even allow it...you have to have time with the company as an Captain upgrade requirement.

Probably for the best. If you can't promote anyone from within you are either growing too fast, or hiring from too low in the barrel.

For what its worth, Heard from a buddy that gulfstream Intl is going to be hiring street captains , so many guys left recently

Cape Air is a commuter as defined by FAR Part 119.3:
A Commuter Operation:
•is scheduled
•uses non-turbojet powered airplanes with a maximum passenger-seat configuration of 9 seats or less, excluding each crew member seat, and a maximum payload capacity of 7,500 pounds or less
•operates with a frequency of at least five round trips per week on at least one route between two or more points according to the published flight schedules.

Interesting. Didn't know this. Thanks for the info!

Cape Air also has a part 121 operation in Micronesia using a couple ATR's.