I talked to an interview Capt yesterday, a day after the announcement about Expressjet getting the 7 yr deal. Congrats btw. He told me that they got an email from Corp that instead of interviewing 5 days a week all thru June and July that now they would interview 5 days a week, every other week all summer. I asked what for and he said Corp has some things their working on and these are in no particular order.

1. We DO have a contract in place with Continental.

2. Horizon

3. The new express deal with United

4. People in the know don't expect Mesa to last much longer

5. They are not getting rid of the Bro's as originally planned so the new Nextgen CRJ's will be an increase to the fleet.

He also said that if we had purchased XJet that they would have been run as a seperate entity just like ASA, so it would not have increased flying for SkyWest pilots. He also said that they are getting some high time applicants from Aloha, Frontier, and another one that I can't recall. Thats all I've got. Believe it or don't, I'm just passing on what he told me. Thought it might encourage some of you that got hired recently but are in the pool. He did not give me a time line but said that we're already overstaffed so something must be going to happen.