A Question for More Fortunate Colleagues
Having been a long time lurker, and a very seldom contributor to pprune, I now turn to the community, with a very simple question: is there any hope left for MD80 first officers such as myself? The Company I worked for shut down, and I have been out of a job for the better part of six months. The likes of Emirates are out of reach as I have just shy of 2000hrs on the jet, and a few hundred more total. Qatar seems to be forever not answering, and all the contract jobs seem to require a "first hand recommendation". Agents and agencies have been no help either. Having written, and called across the globe, I ask this as a last ditch effort: does anybody know any place that will take a non-Airbus-rated guy, or is this quickly becoming a dead end street?