Hello!
Originally Posted by
x933
It's not difficult to see why though. Who wants to do 3-400hrs a year on an entry level TP/Jet with the commensurate time away, when you can go to the airlines and be pretty much guaranteed 900hrs/year ...
If the job fits your needs and pay is acceptable, then the number of hours is not really important. There are enough airlines out there who will make you fly 900 hours a year whilst relocating you from base to base every so many months and still only upgrade you after 10 years. And there are bizjet outfits who upgrade _good_ pilots after 1500 or 2000 hours.
Originally Posted by
x933
... benefits of working for a big company (Stability, holiday, etc)..
You mean like Pan Am, Swissair, Sabena, Air Berlin, Germania, Thomas Cook, ... There is no strabiliy in aviation. Not in the airlines and not in business aviation. Unless you fly as corporate pilot for some private owner who is so rich that he will never be broke. But these guys I am told are usually not so nice to work with.