Mesa is throwing darts on a board man. We all know that's what they are doing. Does it make them a crappy airline worthy of scorn? No. Some bean counter figured that x amount of gross newhires = x amount of net pilots and believe me, they've done the math concerning the attrition. It's a business decision not reflective upon the pilot group. My guess is that they want to get every eligible pilot who's not in the mood to do an astronaut interview in order to get a 20K per year job to come over to their outfit and hopefully they stick around for more than a year. It's a numbers game while there are still numbers to be had.

Some regionals are holding to strict hiring standards (like Compass); good for them. My guess (unless something radically changes) is that Compass will soon join the ranks of the mirror test unless they run out of candidates who want to do a traditional interview complete with Psych eval in order to make McD's wages. Otherwise those people will go to Mesa, GoJet and the like.

We will see.