For any of you wondering if you get hired now if you will upgrade the honest answer is no. Not unless we get more growth. So if you plan to come to Mesa as a new hire right now, you have better start hoping hard we get more airplanes and can staff them all.

We have the CRJ staffed for the LAX flying.
The EJet has the current 5 flying but 6 planes staffed plus some in training and some awarded for a future date next month leaving about 110 upgrades if that left to be awarded for the remaining 24 EJets.

While we are filling classes at the moment, over the next year as others downsize/exchange 200/145 flying for bigger planes it will eventually become much harder to find pilots to recruit even if we get more planes awarded. You better hope, even with additional flying that at the halfway point of Mesa staffing them we can continue to find FO's to come here hoping for even more, just so you can get your upgrade that you hoped you would get on the planned deliveries. Basically at some point, things will not work out for you and Mesa due to poor staffing. If you deny this, you will learn the hard way. I have been at Mesa a long time and it is a cycle here. Good Luck, I wish all of you the best, I am glad to see you guys on line, with all the positive outlooks, but lets be real sometimes as most of you have families involved and this industry can be a real bummer in a flick of the eye.

If we do get more flying, you got lucky. That is what you need in this industry. It is all timing. Upward and Onward!!!