No, the opposite, I'm saying the examiners have integrity, and won't let you pass unless you demonstrate Gojet SOP and procedures. There's a lot of "line knowledge"/procedures that you literally can't learn just by reading the 1000 page SOP.. there's Gojet specific knowledge they expect you to somehow learn from contract instructors who never flew the line.

Every instructor and examiner want you to succeed, but Gojet isn't paying for Gojet instructors. They've outsourced groundschool to Flight Safety. FS desperately makes instructors out of anyone who can get the type rating. Your sim instructor have never flown in a CRJ, they're retirees who observed simulator sessions. They'll teach you techniques for how to fly a 707 or DC-10 or whatever they flew in the 1980's, while you're trying to learn CRJ-550 in 2022. They're 60, 65 or 70 years old and will waste your simulator time with grandpa stories from when they were your age. They're good people, just not ideal instructors for a packed SPOT schedule.

Your first encounter with an actual Gojet pilot during training is on the day of your knowledge and maneuver validation. It's a VERY dangerous training program to attend as a DEC, because you're never trained by or with Gojet pilots, only evaluated. There's no conspiracy or unethical evaluators. It's just a lousy budget operation where the evaluators have to be the only and final barrier.

Gojet also operates the CRJ in their own special way, different from their peers. Their own checklist, their own callouts, their own procedures. Paying as little as possible to Bombardier. Captains with thousands of CRJ hours have failed the DEC evaluations at Gojet. And of course some have passed as well - those with exceptional ability to study, or a varied background so they know all the different ways things can be done.

Thanks for the input. Points well taken. The potential rewards are not worth the risks involved.

On planespotter today they show 68 planes, 38 flying and 30 parked. I went to flightaware and started looking at the remaining planes. There is one Mesa left but it is not flying and looks like it is also parked now. I then started going through the United planes. Several of those have not flown the past few days and do not show any future flights scheduled. Will they ever fly again or will they soon be on the "parked" list?

How many 550s and non 550s does GoJet fly currently? Are the 550s grounded just because of the weight limitations?

The math is not hard and is posted a few pages back. You can put one round on every tail if you want and claim you’re “flying” 40 birds all day long; but the math shows it’s a 15 plane op at most.

The plan is to have 25 airplanes in service. Currently sending 3 a week to the desert until we hit that number. Currently all mesa jets being parked.

is STL considered the desert? There seems to be around 30 of them parked there

That would be about 45% of the total planes GoJet has.

If you are already a CRJ captain then you should know this industry well enough to know it would be a bad move going DEC at GoJet. So either stay where you are, or go to a better regional or LCC.

It makes no sense to take a risk at GoJet when other places pay better and don't have the bad history, unless you are one of those pilots that got yourself in a bind at your prior / current job and you CAN'T go elsewhere. In which case you already would have a bad 121 record.

Did they announce a plan to transfer some 550 to Skywest? I hear from people that a shutdown is happening soon.