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You don't say how old he is. But, assuming he is young and if he can stay put and you can buy a house, he should go with the EMB145. It will be a long time before any of the majors are hiring again since they have so many on furlough. Right now, those that are hiring are taking their pick from the cream of the crop of furloughed pilots. There are a lot of furloughed pilots with very heavy time and who are typed in the aircraft already. My husband's company has a new hire class in session--several have over 20,000 hours and all are already typed in the aircraft. It's sad, but true. Before 9/11 it was possible (although difficult) to transition from a turbo-prop to a major. Now, it is more likely that someone could transition to Comair, ASA and the like--but for the most part it is senior Piedmont and Allegheny Dash-8 pilots who are bailing out to those airlines given the pending demise of their airlines and jobs. So, again, we are talking about very senior people with 10,000 PIC time. So that 6-10 year period is actually a good timeframe.