Go Mesaba...Fly SAAB...Get MEM!! :D

So true, so true! I have no expectations, I'm suprised everyday I show up!!

Or fly CRJ-200s at Mesaba that used to be Pinnacle's.

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dbo861 Welcome to the discussion. I'm not sure how soon you can use the search function (9 posts so far) but when you can it is a good way to check the history of various subjects. Good luck in you new position.

I believe they were owned by NWA and assigned to Mesaba in April 2005. Mesaba got two then the NWA/MAIR bankruptcy got in the way. Only when the CRJ900s were assigned to Mesaba, did the former Mesaba CRJ-200s get allocated to Pinnacle.


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.

Anyone know if Pinnacle has any bases out of NY. If so I'll be applying tomorrow. You see my present job working at an Architectural Metal/ Glass firm behind a desk, listening to and conversing with a bunch of miserable people everyday is a little bit on the ugly side of life. So anyway anyone not willing to take the job as an airline pilot I thank you for making my chances at scoring the job all that much better. Oh by the way I work the normal 60 hours a week and when I get home I'm mentally exhausted. Whew!!! Sorry, had to get that out............sorry again.

Ftrooppilot~
Thanks for trying, but I was actually aluding to the 17 CRJs that Northwest is rumored to take away from Pinnacle since they were unable to meet the March 31 deadline for a pilot agreement. I guess I could have been more clear by saying the planes that will soon be Mesaba's (I'm well aware that nothing has been finalized, but it was supposed to be a joke).

I will say it again like i have said before. I enjoy working at pinnacle. I am happy here. I have 15 days off in april, and will fly about 95 hours. Of course there are some things i don't like and some things i do. It is the same at every other airline. One persons trash is another persons treasure. I have friends at skywest who love it there, i also have friends there who say their lives suck, i have friends at asa who liked it at first, but there are sick of getting boned by skywest. I have 1 friend at xjet and he likes it there (no one else to compare it to.) But according to saabrewski, he is as scared as anyone i know about the future of xjet. So all this talk about dont go somewhere and do go somewhere is everyones personal opinion. I would never go to skywest, or xjet. Dont think i would like it there as much as i do here. As far as nwa taking the planes back, that would be fine by me. Every line in april is above 90 hrs, so we are all getting enough work with out them.

So in conclusion do what you want to do. Everyone will have there personal opinions. The pinnacle bashing is unfounded, i am sure there are things we could bash every other airline about. What makes pinnacle different from almost EVErY OTHER REGIONAL OUT THERE IS WE WONT ACCEPT A SUBSTANDARD CONTRACT. some other airlines out there accepted lower contracts for the promise of new flying. stupid.... WE WONT LET THAT HAPPEN HERE... So show some respect for the pinnacle pilots, there are the only ones out there standing up to management and not accepting a BS contract.

and i know some will say "we only accepted it because the company was in bankruptcy and we had too. I can tell you right now that even if pinnacle went into bankruptcy, the pilots would just walk... no questions asked if we had to take a p!ss poor contract.

Airsupport,

Good to hear some positive things on these threads. I interview on the 18th. I know other MSP based pilots that have the same things to say. At the age of 35 I've been around some other blocks where you take the good and try to make the not so good better.

Thank you. I enjoy seeing a positive note on here once in a while. To an aspiring regional pilot....sometimes reading these forums is like watching 40 tennis games at once.....back and forth back and forth.

PS - 95 hours..wow. Is that the norm?

the norm is around 85, but nwa has given us a ton of flying for april, and there just aren't enough pilots here to do all the flying. like i said almost every line in mem was over 90 hours..which is fine by me because i want to upgrade this year, and seeing how people a couple hundred junior me are upgrading i don't think that will be a problem. just need the 3000tt.