On the latest bid packet it said that express added an additional new hire class in May and more upgrades for the rest of the year with a new bid coming out in August. I expect that we will continue hiring for the rest of the year. Now that we are keeping the airplanes we will need more pilots since we are short staffed right now.
On the application there is a special link for 121 guys to fill out.

I recently spoke with a former Colgan guy that is at express now and he says he has no regrets about leaving Colgan and was also set to upgrade there. Now he is upgrading at Express. He had enough of flying broken airplanes and being forced to do illegal things at Colgan.

You will have to decide for yourself if it is worth leaving or not. Express is a nice place to work with lots of good people and a nice operation. We have a lot of nice quality of life things in our contract. Upgrade is two years right now and new bases will be coming next year.

Good luck.