On top of the guys furloughed from the regionals 5-6K, add in the guys from Majors, the ones from the 135's ie Cargo, you look at 10K pilots looking for work. Now add in all the guys who will have been building time during this, you have to factor in the people who are building time, like the CFI's, crop dusters, and the jumper pilots. There are a few hundred guys out there flying jumpers building turbine time in Otters, Caravans, Skyvans, Kingairs, and Pac's, that will come into the job market with 2,000+ hours with 1,000+ of that time turbine.
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Originally Posted by dudas3
http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/a...-lcc/mesa.html
This should help you out with your question. You can also search all the other airlines as well. To answer your other question I don't see Mesa hiring anyone else anytime soon. They're wanting to go down to around 800 pilots total with the loss of the United flying next year, which means they are looking at around 300-400 more pilots to furlough on top of what they have now. The regionals will be hiring within the next few years but your husband is going to have to except the fact that there are 6000 + pilots on furlough/Out of jobs (ie: Midwest, Aloha, ATA) that are going to be hired before anyone from the flight schools will be hired. Not to say that it will be impossible, if that's what he wants to do then he can't give up, but it is going to be very difficult. His best bet is to try and instruct for a while, or try and get a job towing banners or anything to where he is not paying to build flight time. It's pretty cutthroat out there right now and I do wish you both the best.