Go get yourself a copy of Flight International World Airline Directory and get your credentials out there to any and all that you might be interested in working for.
See what comes back - you just never know who might be hiring next, and you might be lucky enough to get Route 1 straight into a junior management position somewhere......or better.
I stand to be corrected by others' experiences, but once you get bogged down in frontline ops control, you'll find it tough to rise above the quagmire and into ops management, largely because at most decent outfits the turnover in such positions is very low indeed.
Cheers and good luck,
SA!
