If you don't get hired, you'll have to wait two years to reapply. If you're the right stuff, the airline will hire you even if you aren't type-rated in a 737, but you will have to get a type rating before you come on line. The Wall Street Journal. Despite the fact that airlines are hiring, AVweb has gotten several emails from high-time pilots who can't seem to get a response from carriers allegedly desperate to fill cockpits. All the participants at the AEPS AirFair say they try to turn r sum s around and give answers as quickly as possible.
Several factors weigh in.
Others, such as ASA, interview pilots with the highest qualifications first, leaving the lower-time pilots hanging a bit longer. If you've got what it takes, though, and have the minimums to start the process, by all means give it a go. The worst thing that could happen to you is that you could end up right seat in a turboprop flying out of San Juan making just a couple of bucks an hour more than minimum wage. The best thing that could happen to you is that you end up right seat in a turboprop flying out of San Juan making just a couple of bucks an hour more than minimum wage. It you want to be around the big birds but aren't particularly interested in flying them, you can probably get a job tomorrow.