this is in addition to the 2 month upgrade post... now hiring street captains... man, we are hard up for pilots too but with all the guys that have been waiting for 6 years to upgrade is there no one left?



and captains at mesaba only need 2000 hours to upgrade???

WOW! At first I didn't believe it until I saw it for myself on our own website. First I have heard of it. Interesting. Glad you are browsing the Mesaba website! Thinking about joining us?

"and captains at mesaba only need 2000 hours to upgrade???"

all you need are ATP mins

How much total time should be required ?

Agreed. Total time is such a poor way of measuring pilot experience. Is 2000 hours of 152 time in the traffic pattern at XYZ "better" than 1000 hours of single pilot night freight in a Beech 99?

Keep in mind that this isn't really a street captain position. With a 35 day upgrade and dropping they're basically just pointing out the obvious that if you get hired with 2000TT, you'll be able to hold CA with your seniority when you're done with training. Advertising like this is just a method of attracting higher time applicants since 90% (totally fabricated statistic) of their pilot applicants right now have about 400TT. Still great news for those with upcoming class dates or the desire to join Mesaba.

So how do Captains with lower senority numbers fit into the mix when FOs with higher senority numbers are available to upgrade? Do they stay captains or do they rollback to FOs? Are the FOs with low time and a good senority number screwed by higher time pilots with a lower number.

hehehehe,, no.. to close to upgrade here and already have almost a couple years seniority.. i was like you however. a friend of mine mentioned this and i didn't believe it either till i went to your website.. nice pilot orientation slide show.. especially the part where they are trying to sell how comfortable the rj200 is.. "reclining leather seats"... lol, made me laugh.. people always ask at the counter if the plane has a first class section for upgrade, i tell them that the entire plane is first class,, all of the seats are leather, and everyone gets an aisle or a window!!!

i wasn't saying that in a demeaning way.. pinnacle used to be 3000hrs and is now 2500 with certain stipulations.. just mentioned it because i thought they were higher.

you are preaching to the choir man. people knock the lower time captains, but if 2000hrs of their flight time is in the plane they will be in charge of, i think they are in a far better position than the guy off the street.. or like the guys at almost every airline that have turboprops and jets..a friend of mine at skywest was flying the bro, and upgraded into the rj.. that is some crazy shiz if you ask me.

probably the same thing that happened to the street captains here at pinnacle a while back.. get hired and sit reserve as a captain for 4 years or so, till everyone that was hired ahead of you finally upgrades.

They won't displace the CAs back to FOs that upgraded quickly because of flight time. Guys waiting to build time will upgrade when they're legally qualified and another slot opens up, they'll slide in above people that upgraded before them and the other CAs will just sit junior to all the people that get to upgrade when they get ATP mins.