prior121

Why? It's paid time off, who cares.

prior121

The training dept is awesome here. They are your friend and legitimately WANT you to succeed.

The checkairman here are laid back and make you feel comfortable. Unlike another airline that will not be spoken of who's checkairmen get off by intimidating new hires. (cough RAH)

ScottyDo

I'm really glad they told us that they decided to hold off changing crew rooms for another week over in DFW (sarcasm)

Jason5

I was under the impression that the down time would be spent hanging out in a hotel room somewhere. If there's a chance to get away while waiting for sims, no problem.

prior121

Are you an upgrade or a new hire? (Sorry I stopped paying attention to who's who on here a while ago)

If you're an upgrade you're more than welcome to jumpseat home on weekends or anytime you want to leave when you have a break.

If you are a newhire they'll positive space you to any mesa domicile if you have time off,(not weekends but large chunks of days) you can then use your flight benefits (non revving) to get home from there.

However - back when I was a newhire in the Spring of 2013 and all the new hires who were in my recent upgrade class (it was combined FOs and CAs) were in CASS by week two or three. Meaning they now could also Jumpseat to and from training during breaks.

Lots of sweat off your back knowing if the flight is full, you can still ride up front. Only possible issue is until you pass your checkride your Mesa ID lacks the word "Crew." However you are still CASS approved.

I did the JFK-PHX, EWR-PHX a bunch when i was a new hire FO and had to sit up front. No one ever noticied my badge missed "crew." Important part is since in cass your will get the official "Cockpit Access Approved" boarding card.

Careful only nonrevving on short breaks, we did have a guy fired for that when I was a newhire - however he missed two seperate mondays of class If i remember correctly - as flights were full and he couldn't get on as a non rev to make it back to PHX.

Lavdumper

Anyone know if attrition is expected to increase? What side could it be higher on? CRJ
Or EJet?

Xdashdriver

There are probably a greater percentage of EJET captains who are motivated to move on since 80+% of them are recent upgrades. However that 80% have only just started building PIC time so it may be a little bit before they get picked up in any large numbers.

prior121

Attrition will be higher on the EJET CA side as most of the "lifers" were obviously here prior to the EJET coming on property, and per the CBA no CRJ CA could bid the EJET.

Therefore the EJET CA side of the house is a much younger group with I'd say all us of planning on moving on in the next 2-4 years.

Another thing to keep in mind- the majors like seeing recent training events - most of those older Mesa CRJ CAs haven't had a major training event since the CRJ came on property at Mesa. That and over 10k of flight time makes them not very attractive to mainline recruiters. Food for thought.

buddies8

Yeah, they are looking for low timers like you.

FaceBiten

Holy hell captain went junior as hell. 6 months?