Effective January 1, 2008
To be eligible you must:
-Be a Captain
-Have 30 months on the Mesaba payroll
-Meet NWA hiring minimums
-Awarded in seniority order
-Maximum of 10% of the Mesaba pilot group will be eligible over a rolling 12 month period
-No more than 9 Mesaba pilots per month (No more than 3 per month from 1/1/08 – 9/30/08)
-The number of pilots that can flow down to Mesaba from NWA can not exceed the number that flowed from Mesaba to NWA
-If there is a flow down and subsequently another flow up, the maximum number that could flow down is limited to the number that flowed up since the last flow down.