Calm down man. Mesa contract requires vacancies to be filled by the senior qualified, eligible pilot. I believe the company is concerned there are a bunch of junior FOs whose seniority may be able to hold CA, but are not FAR qualified to be PIC. This has happened before at Mesa and I don't know of any significant numbers of "bypassed" FOs that left. There is no bypass pay for unqualified FOs. As soon as they become qualified, they upgrade in seniority order and slide in ahead of the people that were junior to them but upgraded before they did.

Nothing to see here...move along.