Originally Posted by
SiouxFlyer89
A conspiracy theory is that Mesa only upgraded about half this month as they have been recently. That could be also due to the backlog in training. If they upgrade more people then it takes them off the line and places them in a hotel room or at home.
If that is the case its a smart move as it lets them keep coverage on the line while catching up in the training dept.
I tend to agree. They need every pilot flying on the Ejet side. And, taking an Ejet FO offline doesn’t make sense at this point until we can get FO’s through the training pipeline.
We also haven’t even gotten the last Ejet out of conformity and maintenance, and onto the line yet. This appears to be a stalling tactic with United to me, wanting to get more pilots on the line before adding aircraft.