Chances getting hired not current?
02-05-2017, 01:27 PM
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Chances getting hired not current?
After Comair furloughed me Jan 2009, I decided I couldn't start over flying for peanuts with a wife and mortgage, car payments etc. I was lucky enough to get hired as a GM for a company and have done very well the last 7 years.
Fast forward. No wife. Still have a mortgage but no car payments
While grateful for my current job, I just can't myself seeing shuffling papers, answering to share holders or employees for the next 30 years. I am good at what I do now, but I'm about to stab my self.
I have 121 experience, turbine time, PIC time, ATPL, type rating. But no current experience.
In your opinion, would any of the regionals (looking at Endeavor, Envoy, PSA, Piedmont, Republic) have a serious look at me?
Fast forward. No wife. Still have a mortgage but no car payments
While grateful for my current job, I just can't myself seeing shuffling papers, answering to share holders or employees for the next 30 years. I am good at what I do now, but I'm about to stab my self.
I have 121 experience, turbine time, PIC time, ATPL, type rating. But no current experience.
In your opinion, would any of the regionals (looking at Endeavor, Envoy, PSA, Piedmont, Republic) have a serious look at me?
Last edited by Ex Comair Guy; 02-05-2017 at 01:51 PM.
02-05-2017, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Ex Comair Guy
After Comair furloughed me Jan 2009, I decided I couldn't start over flying for peanuts with a wife and mortgage, car payments etc. I was lucky enough to get hired as a GM for a company and have done very well the last 7 years.
Fast forward. No wife. Still have a mortgage but no car payments
While grateful for my current job, I just can't myself seeing shuffling papers, answering to share holders or employees for the next 30 years. I am good at what I do now, but I'm about to stab my self.
I have 121 experience, turbine time, PIC time, ATPL, type rating. But no current experience.
In your opinion, would any of the regionals (looking at Endeavor, Envoy, PSA, Republic) have a serious look at me?
Fast forward. No wife. Still have a mortgage but no car payments
While grateful for my current job, I just can't myself seeing shuffling papers, answering to share holders or employees for the next 30 years. I am good at what I do now, but I'm about to stab my self.
I have 121 experience, turbine time, PIC time, ATPL, type rating. But no current experience.
In your opinion, would any of the regionals (looking at Endeavor, Envoy, PSA, Republic) have a serious look at me?
02-05-2017, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Ex Comair Guy
After Comair furloughed me Jan 2009, I decided I couldn't start over flying for peanuts with a wife and mortgage, car payments etc. I was lucky enough to get hired as a GM for a company and have done very well the last 7 years.
Fast forward. No wife. Still have a mortgage but no car payments
While grateful for my current job, I just can't myself seeing shuffling papers, answering to share holders or employees for the next 30 years. I am good at what I do now, but I'm about to stab my self.
I have 121 experience, turbine time, PIC time, ATPL, type rating. But no current experience.
In your opinion, would any of the regionals (looking at Endeavor, Envoy, PSA, Republic) have a serious look at me?
Fast forward. No wife. Still have a mortgage but no car payments
While grateful for my current job, I just can't myself seeing shuffling papers, answering to share holders or employees for the next 30 years. I am good at what I do now, but I'm about to stab my self.
I have 121 experience, turbine time, PIC time, ATPL, type rating. But no current experience.
In your opinion, would any of the regionals (looking at Endeavor, Envoy, PSA, Republic) have a serious look at me?
At PSA, I have heard that we will hire you and put you in ATP-CTP class (even though you don't need the ATP). It is like a 2 week boot camp to get back in the saddle. I know one guy that I referred that had a similar background. He flew about 5 hours in a piston single, and then did the ATP-CTP class and got a few hours in the sim. He completed training without any issues, and did well in OE.
02-05-2017, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Ex Comair Guy
After Comair furloughed me Jan 2009, I decided I couldn't start over flying for peanuts with a wife and mortgage, car payments etc. I was lucky enough to get hired as a GM for a company and have done very well the last 7 years.
Fast forward. No wife. Still have a mortgage but no car payments
While grateful for my current job, I just can't myself seeing shuffling papers, answering to share holders or employees for the next 30 years. I am good at what I do now, but I'm about to stab my self.
I have 121 experience, turbine time, PIC time, ATPL, type rating. But no current experience.
In your opinion, would any of the regionals (looking at Endeavor, Envoy, PSA, Piedmont, Republic) have a serious look at me?
Fast forward. No wife. Still have a mortgage but no car payments
While grateful for my current job, I just can't myself seeing shuffling papers, answering to share holders or employees for the next 30 years. I am good at what I do now, but I'm about to stab my self.
I have 121 experience, turbine time, PIC time, ATPL, type rating. But no current experience.
In your opinion, would any of the regionals (looking at Endeavor, Envoy, PSA, Piedmont, Republic) have a serious look at me?
02-05-2017, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by PSA help
My suggestion, get at least a few hours in something, and then go get an interview. Then study for the interview. You won't believe how much you have forgotten about flying.
Buy the book Everything Explained for the Professional Pilot. $50ish on Amazon. Good refresher and interview prep for 121/135. Not a ton has changed since 2009. Part 117 is probably the most notable addition.
02-05-2017, 03:17 PM
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Good luck getting back into airline flying, I wish you well, but knowing from being at PSA a few years back, the folks at upper management in my opinion are nothing more then a bunch of lying bat rastards. They will look you right in your face and outright lie, it happened to me.
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