Getting in CASS
 

I am a new guy at XJ in training for the CR9 and am trying to figure out if I need to do anything to get in the CASS database so I can jumpseat. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Reply here of PM

Thanks!!

ExpressJet flies the CRJ now? News to me...

XJ is Mesaba.

Nothing you have to do. Once you are a pilot for XJ (Mesabahhhhhh). You will be in the CASS system. When you go to "jumpseat", you will show your ID, they look in the computer, a voila!!! If the Captain agrees, your in!!!
Nothing to do on you side to "get in" the system. But you have to be "employed". I don't know if that is before, or after your checkride, or what.

Ah, those crazy two-letter codes. I never did bother to learn any of them.

As long as you know your own. Once had a gate agent ask me what Spirit's code is. So for fun I asked which one IATA, or ICAO? Threw her for a loop. I then asked, the 2 or 3 letter. She needed the 2. Dry sense of humor on my part I guess.:(

You "should" be in the system by now, I know that some guys jumpseated back home last weekend (they started that Monday).

But remember, if you jumpseat during training and can't get back, it's all on you.

...don't forget your passport...

Don't they cover this in class?