Originally Posted by
flapshalfspeed
Hahaha. He just upgraded. I'm pretty confident he'll end up at United eventually, along with quite a few other well-educated, well-spoken, intelligent Mesa Captains with the wherewithall to apply, attend career fairs, and present themselves properly.
Mesa is not only capable of staffing our current UAX operation, we are in fact covering the understaffed regionals' flying now. How do I know this? Because I've been called in to operate unscheduled Mesa 175 flights twice this week, that were originally on Shuttle 170s but "cancelled due to staffing."
Looking at our predicted lines, block hours, and training pipeline, and with the DFW & YYZ sims being utilized now, we're completely caught up on staffing and defnitely scaled up for more flying if United throws it our way.
Sorry to the haters, this place isn't going to implode anytime soon.
Hate to say it but we are short on FOs on the EJET, hence the hold backs. Only 77 FOs active for 24 aircraft means a little over 3 FOs per aircraft. That number needs to be at least 5. So we are short about 40 FOs. With 2 deliveries a month still they will have to play catch up at some point. I think the reason there are no EJET upgrades in June is perhaps they are trying to fill a class with 20 FOs instead of 10 CA and 10 FO to catch up a little in the right seat before they start having to pay the hold backs their CA pay.
Students currently in the sim have waited about a month so there is still a bit of a backlog there too.