Wooley telling people that a flow is imminent? haha shocking he would say something like that to people... if I was in a casino right now and I had to bet if Xjt would get a flow or not, I would put every penny I had on Xjt not getting a flow. Wooley used to be one of us, it's amazing what a management position will do to you LOL

I guess you could say he pulled the Wooley over the pilot group's eyes.

I once witness him tell someone on a rolled day that the company was not rolling any days at the moment. Boy was he surprised! Sometimes I think he's just as in the dark as the rest of us...

I've heard the "flow" contract is already signed and sitting in a drawer somewhere. It's a matter of time before it's announced but XJT has to have its personnel in place to make it work. They first need to fully staff XJT before they can start flowing pilots to United. What interest would United have in buying ownership in XJT is they weren't going to utilize the XJT pilot pipeline?

Did you hear that from a guy that had someone convinced he was capable of performing medical procedures on a kitchen table?

As well as a host of other tall tales?

That is an interesting one to explain. So united may wish to remove you from a program for attendance for an attendance event that is under protected status at your current employer? I hope someone puts out some clarification for that. I have a lawyer friend who is dying to take a whiff of that.

So United only wants to offer a flow when we're fat on pilots. If you see the company directory there are only 650 active pilots between captains and FO's. 179 captains and FO's on "L" status. Finally, people hired this year, or with seniority starting January 2019 including those already flying plus new hires on training are 224. We should be 325 pilots hired in 2019 by now. So if XJT wants to fly 125 ERJ's 145, and 25 175's we need solid 1500 pilots. Were are barely able to staff 70 airplanes as it is. I always thought that the flow plan, if it's true, would be to attract pilots in a cheaply manner, otherwise why would United have a flow in place?

There is no need for a flow... The whipsaw will always continue in the regional industry. In about a month or so Ual will announce another 40 175's going to XJT, Mesa contract will expire shifting planes over to Xjt and the bottom half of Mesa seniority list to leave Mesa for XJT, we are our own worst enemy. The whipsaw will always remain! Sad, but true.

I think you're right about the long term strategy, but I think it will take a long time to play out. The thing Mesa has that XJT doesn't is a large stable of 175 pilots who are ready to fly tomorrow. It's going to take a long time for XJT to hire and train enough people to staff the 30 175's that are coming available for re-assignment now/soon. Mesa owns 18 of the 175's they are flying for UA out of IAH. 12 of the others have agreements in place through Dec 2023. So there are 30 that could be considered "in play" in the near term. Considering that more new 175's at XJT might just be replacing large CRJs from the UA fleet, I don't think the Mesa 175's are going anywhere soon, assuming Mesa can staff them.

Boy you haven't figured it out yet? You have 68 LRs and 29 XRs. They are transferring the XRs to C5 and gonna park the LRs and use those pilots to fly 175s.

XJT has the pilots for the 175s.