Originally Posted by djrogs03

They hired fat...which is probably the reason everyone is anoyed with XJer's and how we've been talking about more airframes...I was flying the CEO of XJ an DAL down to ATL and back out of MSP in July, so they knew all along something was up...I can't believe no one spilled the beans at the GO...they overhired on the Saab a year ago and finally have gotten caught up in the last few months...trust me no Street Captains...they have plenty of people with the mins...it is a junior company but I'de say alot of the guys we've hired came in close/ if not at ATP mins anyway, especially lately...most of the street captains we were hiring a year ago had 5,000 hours of ERJ time from Eagle....we have way to many pilots for them to start doing that again....when the hiring spurt started a year and a half ago, they were putting the people with more hours in the Saab as FO's because of the very reason which is upon us today...some of the guys flying the 900 and the 200 when the spurt came upon us have over 1100 hours on the jet just at Mesaba...I just don't see it happening