I think it is worth bearing in mind the huge numbers of letters, cv's and phone calls these people get. It is probably worse at present than it has been for some time due to the huge backlog of people in the system.
The smaller companies in particular just haven't got the resources to reply personally to maybe 200 - 300 letters a month, especially when you consider that it will often be the chief pilot who has to do the replying himself.
As for the bigger companies, the numbers are even worse because everybody has heard of them - some of the smaller guys get off lightly because not all wannabees reserach the market or want to live out in the boonies flying something that hasn't got jets.
I can imagine the various operators must get pretty cheesed off with the endless stream of enquiries, and if you ever contact the guys at Emerald over in Liverpool, they will give you some rather refreshingly honest feedback as to how much of a pain in the whatsit we all are.
That's just the way it is at present, and probably always will be. Just log the guys who don't respond, and remember not to send them a stamped, addressed envelope for reply the next time you write.
