18months applying now to airlines, air charter, ambulance services and nothing.
The only way to go is a P2F scheme if you want to build hours, 35K for 500 hours. Well worth it!
Remember if you don't have your 1500 flying hours 5 years after your commercial you have to sit your atpl exams again.... apparently!
There are no FI jobs out there at the moment, because everyone went down that road when the airlines were not hiring, now people are going down the P2F road because they are desperate.
And now is the perfect time of year to have 500 hrs because airlines are looking for summer contracts.