I know this is still 3 years away, but I'm currently a FE in the AF and riding the fence right now to either A) Finish another 10 years and have retirement at 40 or B) Get out and try again at the airline career. Mind you all I have right now is a private and multi with about 120 hours so I'd have to finish up somewhere back in the motherland of MN, which is why Mesaba is so attractive to me. Now my real question is, would having a FE ticket have any more push when it comes to putting in the application? The systems thing doesn't really bother me as I fly on a powerplant in the sky with a mere 8 gens. Any insights would be great.