Originally Posted by
ToiletDuck
If they hire one street captain because they don't want to pay to train the FO for the upgrade then pay to train a new FO then they are bypassing people and ALPA should fight the hell out of it. If you're an FO at mesa and meet the min requirements to hold CA and they hire someone off the street over you then I'd be filing a grievance right now.
TD, ever heard of MPD? Mesa has hired a lot of LOW TIME (250 hours or so) FO's who can't possibly have the hours to upgrade yet. I'm sure that, IF Mesa is bypassing FO's who have the times to upgrade, then ALPA's doing what they can but I'm almost positive they are not. One simple reason, Mesa doesn't have that kind of a pilot pool.