Originally Posted by
3stripes
Any word on when or if new hires will be hired on to the E175 at Mesa? Realistically is the upgrade going to be sub 2 years? Was talking to a CFI this morning at my local FBO who was saying he had a class date for the E175 with Mesa and that he'd be upgrading in 18 months...the guy was a bit full of it and only had a restricted ATP.
He won't even have the time requirements to upgrade to Captain as under the new rules, you need 1,000 hours SIC (or 1,000 PIC 135) in order to serve as PIC in 121.