White Mesa go! flying for US Airways Express

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05-06-2014 | 06:55 PM

higgi8f6

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White Mesa go! flying for US Airways Express

Just curious if anybody can shed some light on the all white Mesa CRJ-200 flying through CLT? It looks like an old go! plane. Yesterday it was parked on the north hard stands and today I saw it departing from several different gates on the E concourse?

I thought Mesa's contract with US Airways was only for 900s?

05-06-2014 | 07:03 PM

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Called a mx spare.. And JO saving millions on pilot pay plane....

05-06-2014 | 08:48 PM

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Does it still have the electric blue Independence Air seats with the cheesy Go sticker over the embossed FLY I logo on the back of the seats

05-07-2014 | 04:24 AM

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Is that what that was? I didn't know pilots were qualed to fly the 200 at Mesa.

05-07-2014 | 06:10 AM

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Is that what that was? I didn't know pilots were qualed to fly the 200 at Mesa.

Plenty of old-school mesa guys were qualified on the 200...as long as they stay current on the 700/900 and the 200 is still on the certificate they should be good for 121 ops. While you had to get an initial checkout on each sub-type there was never any ongoing currency requirement for the sub-types...current on one, current on all unless their opspec says otherwise.

For part 91 it's a common type, all you need is the type and GTG.

05-07-2014 | 06:44 AM

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That's a typical Mesa thing, they even flew all white CRJ-200s for Frontier a long long time ago. Allows them to swap planes between major airline partners.

05-07-2014 | 07:10 AM

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Is that what that was? I didn't know pilots were qualed to fly the 200 at Mesa.

Or first day of recurrent training in the sim is in a 200. So yes, every mesa pilot is qualified for the 2/7/9... Technically. Operationally is a different story.

05-07-2014 | 09:01 AM

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Skywest does the same thing

05-07-2014 | 09:08 AM

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Is that what that was? I didn't know pilots were qualed to fly the 200 at Mesa.

Currently in the 900 course; after sims, we spend a day and a half doing 200 differences training, 'just in case' we wind up having to fly it

05-07-2014 | 10:31 AM

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Yes, just a spare. I looked it up in the computer yesterday thinking Mesa might have been covering flying for a wholly-owned, but it is just being used as a spare on downgraded Mesa -900 flights. Today it is scheduled for SAV-CLT-LIT-CLT-SAV (so far.)