What's mesa's priority on the standby listing for UAL?

I don't know what it is with United, but I swear they have a magic program that looks at the amount of open seats the morning of a flight and automatically books random people (probably against their will) on the flight until the flight shows 10 oversold. Have had this happen on virtually every United mainline flight I try to get on. If I wasn't able to ride the jumpseat domestically I'd never actually get on.

As for international, we tried to go SFO-HKG. Seven hours before departure they were showing 70 open seats. Got to the airport and it was 11 oversold. Tried Honolulu with the same result. I've seen the same thing many, many times.

Not sure why, but Delta mainline seems much better in this respect...

Everyone I know stayed on Airways bennies even while we were out in Hawaii. I think it depends on your presently-awarded base during the enrollment window.

All CRJ pilots on the mainland (which is to say all CRJ pilots now), can and do perform flying for both mainline partners--so all CRJ pilots get to non-rev in both systems. For example, one time as an IAD lineholding FO, I had a UAX CLT-IAD flight cancel, and crew sched reassigned my CA and I to operate a CLT-IAD flight in the Airways system. It's not just reserves--everyone can and occasionally does do flying for both partners.

I'm just saying the IAH base is the only place where no one is going to touch an Airways flight number, hence in theory no one there will have Airways benefits after this year's enrollment period ends.

Yes, I believe you are correct on both of the points above.

Or...What if Mesa gets 175 (E-jet) AA flying.....

Sure, insurance will be strict since it is a new type, however, the aircraft has been operating for some time and has established reliability, albeit somewhat blemished. Over time, when an air carrier builds up a good safety record with a certain type of aircraft, staffing them becomes a lot less restrictive.

And I'm not saying you'd be good to go as a street Captain, which are the minimums above.

To further my point above....once the aircraft has an established safety/reliability record with the air carrier the above in bold would most likely be the most restrictive to someone like yourself. I did add B787 because that is what the insurance company would do over time.

Or, what if J.O. Negotiates with Air France, and Mesa gets a couple of Concordes? Or what if Mesa brings back a Convair 990? How cool would that be?
No No No, I am waiting for Mesa to get a DC6, I feel like flying some round engines!

Lol I was thinking dc 8

Eff that! I heard from J.O.'s brother's, cousin's, girlfriend's, dog that Mesa is getting a government contract to fly F/A-18s against ISIS in the Middle East at $20/flight hour! Pretty cool huh? ;)

I heard that we would only get to use the standard iron bombs. If we want to use JDAM's, we are going to have to pay for that out of our paychecks.