Originally Posted by
JAGflyer
This information only applies to new hires...
Be careful on this one! The only time that the company will positive space you from home is for inital ground school. After that, the company is only responsible to get you to sim from one of the hubs (MSP, MEM, DTW). So...if you are like most people and have 2-8 weeks off after gound school, the company will NOT positive space you home and will NOT positive space from home. There only responsibility is to get you from a hub to sim. You actually make travel plans with the training scheduler once you revieve a sim schudule and then are only given the option for positive space from MSP, DTW or MEM, your choice.
So, those of you that are new hires, plan on non-rev home between ground and sim. The company did not tell my class this information until that last day of class and everybody was in shock. This was less than a few months ago.
JAG,
You're absolutely correct. I completely left out that detail. We got the same surprise on the last day of ground school. Nice. I ended up driving to MSP to get positive spaced to DEN. The way home was a very long day...6:30am departure from DEN...lost my bags (again)...dug my vehicle out of 2 feet of snow...and drove home for 5 hours. I had to pull over a few times to rest my eyes because of the LONG night we had celebrating (my own fault) the night before.
Oh...BTW...don't park your vehicle at the Mesaba HQ (in Eagan) if you plan on leaving it there for longer than a few days. Spectrum Shuttle service can/will tow your vehicle. I left mine there on the recommendation of a Mesaba training coordinator and got a call 2 weeks into my SIM training from Spectrum advising me to move my vehicle or else. We worked it all out, but going forward you are not to park there (snow removal, etc...). The reason I parked there in the first place was because the MSP parking lot policy prohibits extended parking in their lots as well. Now, my captain didn't have a problem, but it says right there in the policy that they can tow you if the vehicle isn't moved within 10 days. So, I don't know where they expect you to park if they're going to require you to be gone for up to 3 weeks.