I want to ask a serious question here and no FLAME intended. I received a phone call from Mesaba about interviewing with them , and I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the financial issue. How does one walk in to a job where even after four years as an F/O your guarantee pay is only going to gross you just over 30K a year. Now I'm sure that if you hold a line you will work > the 75 hr. minimum, but that's a long time to be that poor. What are upgrade times looking like right now? Everyone I've talked to seems to love Mesaba, and I'm not trying to put the company down...I'm just uninformed I suppose. I guess I should ask how often do people break garauntee especially now with this hiring boom, I can imagine there will be a significant number of pilots sitting reserve.

Halp,
PFactor