You just said "it makes sense"...

Lol, I don't know what I was thinking.

So does this mean that any of the bases and all the different aircraft will be open for anyone to bid for once the merger is totally done? you will be able to go from the Q to the rj and back? If this is the case this yields a lot of different options for you guys. I think pinnacolgsaba may have jumped to the top of my list of regionals i would like to work at. please any more info on this would be appreciated.

1. It depends on any restrictions in the actual list award. There could be fences on A/C or implementation time restrictions.
2. The company still has to deal with the FAA and all the training to simply move 3 certs into the 2.
3. If there are no fences and the company finishes up the transition there is the ability to move around. There are locks in the JCBA to prevent pilots from base hopping and equiptment changing all the time.


So yes, you should be able to move around, but the design of everything is to allow a pilot to progress through the equipment in different bases and into higher paying equip as time and seniority permits.

Like Higney said, the biggest question is fences, and we won't know until our integrated seniority list is out.

Some bases and aircraft will be very senior for a long time though (Mem, MSP)

Do you think BOS will be a junior base for the saab?

Is Mesaba still pooling for the upcoming class? Anyone out there been hired since 6/1?

I just got a conditional offer last week, they said they were pooling and waiting for the SLI to go through before announcing a new class.

14 of us started class on the 6th.

i received the official offer last thursday after interviewing on the 7th. still waiting for the class date.

are they hiring mesaba guys and having them fly any of the colgan saab's??? or is it strictly mesabas US AIR flying out of LGA??

Strictly Mesaba for now...

For the new hires, how long after applying did it take before you got the call and what kind of experience do you have?

took a full month to hear back from mesaba
925/75 pt. 135 experience, no cfi
i had the lowest time out of the 7 of us who interviewed

congrats and thanks for the info! i am sure the 135 experience helped. from what i've read mesaba hasn't really done much in terms of pooling for new hires since the end of may. it seems the colgan integration is part of the reason why.

I got the official offer today, 8 days after the interview. Class date is still up in the air.

Good to hear! Took about eight days for me as well. Now for that class date...

Congrats! Did they happen to give an estimate on when they would know?

Hopefully within a month, sure there is still a lot of SLI details to work through.

sweet! see u kids there!