No new information of when hiring will restart. Flying is still way down BUT it is increasing month to month on the American side (I don’t have details on how the UA side is doing). Furloughs are still unknown but we never got warning notices so that’s a little promising. The union is in talks with the company and the company wanted to reduce minimum guarantee pay to prevent furloughs but the union declined it so they are still in talks about what to do to prevent furloughs. The guys that hadn’t completed IOE and got furloughed awhile ago are still furloughed. There are about 80 guys who got furloughed during training. So they’ll bring them back first before hiring outside.

My personal belief (hopefully others won’t knock it and make it an argument because I agree it’s tough times for many people and this is just my belief) is that JO is going to be taking as much advantage as possible of this downturn in the industry and acquire flying from the regions that go under. Mesa isn’t going anywhere, and if anything maybe we come out of this a bigger airline. I don’t see any additional furloughs happening. With that being said, the time line is what you’re looking for on when we will be getting bigger and only time will tell the answer to that unfortunately. Professionals are saying a bounce back in 2024 but in all honesty you don’t really know so it’s only something time will answer for us.

Stay safe, and stay optimistic as I sure am even though it’s tough.


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