Mesaba CRJs- it's official

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04-23-2005, 06:41 AM

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Mesaba CRJs- it's official

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050422/225054.html?.v=1

Mesaba Aviation to Fly CRJ Regional Jets
Friday April 22, 8:30 am ET
New Agreement to Expand and Extend Northwest Airlink Flying

MINNEAPOLIS & ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 2005--Mesaba Aviation, Inc., a subsidiary company of MAIR Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAIR - News), today announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Northwest Airlines to operate 15 Bombardier CRJ-200 regional jets under the Northwest Airlink banner, with exclusive rights to the next 20 CRJ-200 or CRJ-440 aircraft Northwest Airlines may order. Mesaba will lease the aircraft from Northwest Airlines and expects the first aircraft to enter service before the end of 2005.

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04-23-2005, 06:45 AM

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Hiring is now going into full swing at 20+/month!

04-23-2005, 09:20 AM

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Any idea on Pay Rates for the new equipment? Hopefully, ALPA won't allow pilots to operate the new equipment in service of Mesaba unless a pay rate is in place. Mesa pilots have a Jet and Prop rate for F/O's it might be a nice opportunity do the same.

Good Luck!

04-23-2005, 10:00 AM

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Mesaba ALPA established those rates in our 1996 contract and more importantly in our 2004 contract. Here are the current 40-59 seat jet rates if u were hired today:

(DOS = Jan. 31, 2004)

DOS + 1

40-59 Passenger
Jet

YOS CA FO

0-1 55.42 23.54

1-2 57.09 28.22

2-3 58.81 30.99

3-4 60.57 33.75

4-5 62.37 34.76

5-6 64.26 35.80

6-7 66.19 36.88

7-8 68.17 37.98* (FO max at 8 years)

8-9 70.21

9-10 72.32

10-11 74.48

11-12 76.71

12-13 79.02

13-14 81.40

14-15 83.83

15-16 86.35

16-17 88.94

17-18 91.61

04-23-2005, 10:04 AM

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And to give you a longer term idea of what we have, here's DOS + 4 (January 2008), the last year in our contract.

DOS + 4

40-59 Passenger
Jet

YOS CA FO
0-1 61.14 25.97
1-2 62.98 31.14
2-3 64.88 34.19
3-4 66.82 37.24
4-5 68.81 38.35
5-6 70.89 39.50
6-7 73.02 40.68
7-8 75.20 41.90 (FO max at 8 years)
8-9 77.45
9-10 79.78
10-11 82.17
11-12 84.64
12-13 87.18
13-14 89.80
14-15 92.49
15-16 95.27
16-17 98.13
17-18 101.06

04-23-2005, 09:58 PM

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Does Mesaba pay during training, and is the hotel taken care of?

04-24-2005, 12:59 PM

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Quote:

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Does Mesaba pay during training, and is the hotel taken care of?

Mesaba treats you like an employee from day one of indoc. You're on the payroll: 75 hour guarantee, most health benefits for you and family- I think dental kicks in a month or two after DOH. You get your badge within the first couple of days (so you can jumpseat.) And yes the hotel is paid for.

04-25-2005, 07:03 AM

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The early word is Mesaba will hire about 120 pilots to cover the CRJs and transition from our current aircraft, Saab and Avro. I'm suspecting most newhires should get the CRJ because most of our current senior FOs will be taking the upgrade in the Saab and current Saab CAs will be shifting to the CRJ.

Assuming the company is awarded the additional 20 CRJs (its basically a no brainer), that will necessitate about 300 total newhires. Get your resumes in now!