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Originally Posted by gtippin
Not trying to get off thread here but I an observation. I am a part 91/135 corporate pilot currently unemployed looking for work. I am doing some contract work but things being the way they are not getting much. Not in a position where I can move. Now dont get me wrong I chose this side of Aviation and I really prefer it. I do however want to keep flying as long as I can and a comutable position would be a good fit for me. Not many airlines are hiring and if I were to get hired by GoJet I would be scum and a scab and any number of other of unethical things a person can be called because " I would be taking someone else's lively hood". My question is why is it ok to do it to us in the 91/135. So many of these guys wanted to fly for the airlines and now that the big F has put so many out on the street they are flooding into our jobs. I understand the desire to keep flying but here lately every interview I have attended there were several regionial guys there and in at least 3 cases the job went to them because they took the job for less money. If that happened in the 121 world everyone would be all up in arms but I guess its ok when it happens in 91. I dont bear anyone ill will but I think you should look at the whole picture before you start calling names.
I doubt that they are taking the jobs for less money. It is just a simple matter that they have more experience and they will be easier to insure in a 91 corporate environment or a Part 135 environment. Put yourself in the shoes of the guy doing the hiring. Do you take a guy for a freight dog job that has little instrument experience and barely makes the 135 mins, or the furloughed airline pilot with a fews years experience flying complex jet airplanes?