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Before Covid, I have friends who did the "American Flow" via PSA/Piedmont jumped to Frontier and Spirit in 2 years instead of just waiting for the advertised 5 year flow to American.  

Post Covid (or whatever you want to call it now), I'll bet you'll see the jump from the regionals at 1 year.  They can't keep what they're training at the regionals now. 

Southwest is hiring 1,372 pilots THIS YEAR ALONE and projects hiring even more than that next year.  See 8:00 mark in this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cFKT9qlsik

Part 135 carriers say they don't have any stacks of resumes anymore because the airlines are sucking everyone up.  

The old stories you hear of guys who did the jump years ago are not the stories that we're starting to hear over the past 2-3 years.  There are better deals and still as good a schedules as HAA/Gulf provide in the FW world.  

Imagine still working a 7/7, but the travel to the job is paid (as part of the 7/7; NOT the day prior and after on your time off), all meals covered the entire week, keep airline/hotel/rental miles, plus per diem, plus catered meals and you keep the meal allowance.  It's like an amped up national pool pilot job... but no crappy location all week, no medcrew dictactiing how you fly, you travel on the company's days not your own, in an almost new twin-engine bird, with another pilot for safety.

Don't believe me?  Check out NetJets, FlexJets, etc.  I've talked to these guys when they've passed my way and it's legit:

https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/fractional/flexjet