Mesa is still hiring street CA's on both the 1900 and the dash. I know for a fact that several of the street CA's have been CFI's. However, they were high time CFI's. Not the typical guys with their couple hundred hours that think they are ready to fly a 777 . I was hired as a street CA myself and have thankfully managed to make it a year with no violations but I am quickly considering jumping ship with my time to sit at another regional while I wait in line for one of those major jobs. The main problem with the quick upgrade's at Mesa on the T-props is that MANY ppl right now are getting letters in their files due to FAR violations or company violations. We are also seeing quite a few ppl bumped back to F.O. or even worse let go because of relatively minor infractions. And just to set things straight our most junior Capt's on the Jets are as follows (Current as of this week)

CRJ - IAD hired 01-12-04 Global Seniority # 997
ERJ - IAD hired 11-29-04 Global Seniority # 1174

So for those of you coming to Mesa for the quick upgrade T-prop..Yes but it's a gamble with those expensive certificates. Jet....well forget it.

Oh and disregard grammar and spellin' it after 2am