Originally Posted by
Skyone
Just curious. I saw that Mesa is looking for captains now. Direct to the left seat. How does this sit with ALPA? Are they that hard up for personnel that no one has the mins for the left seat? This seems to be a first for an ALPA seniority carrier.
That's been over for a while. That was for the Dash-8 - JFK thing that didn't last long anyway. The reason they needed so many street Captains for the Dash is the stupid seat fence that's over there. The only people that can bid turboprop captain are turboprop F/Os of which there weren't that many. I would have gladly bid over to the Dash (which is what I wanted in the first place when I went there) but couldn't. Incidentally, many of the F/Os that are leaving/have left (me included) had more than enough time to upgrade but just couldn't stomach it anymore. Mesa is spiraling down and hopefully will implode in the near future.