[QUOTE=mikeypat15;998963]From my understanding, you will be seat locked on your equipment for atleast a year. From there you can change equipment if your seniority number can hold it, but I believe you are then seat locked again as an F.O. for a year and cannot upgrade to the left seat.

Now as for flow through to Pinnacle, I think it only exists if your furloughed by Mesaba and needed by Pinnacle and vice versa. If your on the Mesaba side you can't bid to get on Pinnacle equipment. (Just my understanding).[/QUOTE]

B; FALSE...

You will be seat locked into whatever seat you're hired into for one year. From there, you can bid whatever your seniority will allow as long as there is an open vacancy for that equipment whether is Mesaba/Colgan or Pinnacle. You will carry a two year seat lock for an FO position, and also be locked for one year before you can upgrade (an upgrade is unlikely to happen that fast (2 years from DOH if you push things) at this point, but who knows). It does not matter whether you're bidding to or from XJ/9L to 9E or vice-versa.

Flow through is a term used for an agreement between a regional and a mainline carrier that allows preferential hiring for those that are eligible based on seniority. Welcome to the party guys!