I recently interviewed at Pinnacle (got an offer too). I met someone in one of the current training classes and they confirmed that they have some collegiate lower time pilots in their class that bypassed the interview. I guess the true test will be for them if they can hack it through training.

As for Colgan, Pinnacle Corp. is having all colgans pilots and aircraft absorbed into Mesaba. When the dust settles, Pinnacle Airlines will be all jets and Mesaba will be all turboprops with all the pilots from both colgan and mesaba. Very soon the Colgan name will be a thing of the past!

-W