Mesaba vs. Colgan
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Mesaba vs. Colgan
Currently I'm a first officer at Colgan, I have been offered a street captain position at mesaba. I'm tentatively scheduled to upgrade at colgan in FEB. Is it better to go to mesaba and starting getting some PIC and be on reserve and doing standup overnights, or stay at Colgan and wait 2 to 4 months to upgrade but have seniority? Any thoughts are appreciated.
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Currently I'm a first officer at Colgan, I have been offered a street captain position at mesaba. I'm tentatively scheduled to upgrade at colgan in FEB. Is it better to go to mesaba and starting getting some PIC and be on reserve and doing standup overnights, or stay at Colgan and wait 2 to 4 months to upgrade but have seniority? Any thoughts are appreciated.
Good luck with your decision
#4
How could a seniority number of 850 be at the tail end of hiring? The current roster sits at 869. We still have over 20 CR9's yet to be delivered and 13 CRJ2's from 9E. Or are you referring to the end of street captain hiring?
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We've currently hired 324 as of Oct 1. When all the planes are delivered we'll have 102 which would bring the list out to approx 1050 with management and instructors. So if somebody took a street captain position they would be on reserve forever or until they left.
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Good luck with that. It really depends, MSP has always been senior, the most junior SFC CA in MSP is 509. Its really hard to tell, most of the SF3 guys can't bid to the jet because of the seat lock, and if they hire street CA into the jet it releases the seat lock for the SF3 guys. Confusing but hope that helps.
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Good luck with that. It really depends, MSP has always been senior, the most junior SFC CA in MSP is 509. Its really hard to tell, most of the SF3 guys can't bid to the jet because of the seat lock, and if they hire street CA into the jet it releases the seat lock for the SF3 guys. Confusing but hope that helps.
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This is confusing but I would say never. The union and the pilots would not allow this. Some street captain making alot more money when alot more senior people could have hold this. My understanding is that if the need arises to hire into the CR2 then they will release the seat locks for the SF3 CA and the street CA with take that position instead.
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