Mesaba new hires
03-08-2008, 07:23 AM
#2381
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2007
Position: "I love the smell of Napalm in the Morning."
Posts: 288
It all make since, they didn't need as many cap's last month so why would they need more for the summer. You know it might be different this year, we might have a slow summer cause it been busy every summer since the begining of mesaba, so we're do for a slow summer.....some year......right?
Crew Planning has very little to do with it...staffing, routes etc is all dictated by NWA marketing. They give a forecast about the number of hours that need to be covered in each base. I used to work in that department and flight hours could change by 1000 hours a month...which could change staffing by 12-15 lines per month. They just try to keep it close because who knows what NWA what will do. Kind of like gambling....you usually you look like the a**
03-09-2008, 05:33 AM
#2382
On Reserve
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 22
anyone from the 12/3 Saab class started IOE yet? Just curious as to how well they are catching up or if its still 6+ weeks 
03-09-2008, 09:13 AM
#2383
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2007
Posts: 630
Just enjoy your time home. At least you are home doing nothing vs being stuck in detroit on reserve doing nothing (havent been called yet this month.)
03-09-2008, 07:33 PM
#2384
Line Holder
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: Recovering Aviator
Posts: 31
Hey Rager, I was in the 12/3 class. I know two of our D3C's are done with OE and just waiting on their fed rides. Got my call today to start OE out of base on Wednesday the 12th. I'm a D3C also, doing the OE out of MSP FWIW.
03-10-2008, 08:06 AM
#2385
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 593
Anyone know the wait on FO IOE for the 900...I got a week till my PC and I want to go somewhere tropical afterwards for awhile!!!
03-10-2008, 12:31 PM
#2387
11 soon to be 10 days off
Joined APC: Mar 2007
Position: Left seat, wait right seat, no no left seat, nope right seat! Ummmm, I guess I am confused
Posts: 275
Welcome all you guys/gals, it is good to see we are still hiring and this thread is still going strong!
03-10-2008, 10:42 PM
#2388
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Joined APC: May 2006
Position: CA
Posts: 531
So I heard we are losing the -200 HPN route to Pinnacle? Is that true, or are we trading routes?
03-11-2008, 10:11 AM
#2389
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Joined APC: Jul 2006
Posts: 614
March 10th, 100% completion factor. First time since I believe december that it has happened. It appears the Saabs have caught their second wind.
03-11-2008, 12:57 PM
#2390
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2008
Posts: 493
As more XJ -200s come on property you'll see them flying on a multitude of routes. For one schedule period we may go to HPN, and then next we may not. It all has to do with lines of flying associated to the a/c. Similarly you'll see the 900 going places one time and a mainline a/c doing it in the next schedule change and the same is true for Saab routes as well. In the summer INL is all 9E CRJ where as in the winter it is all XJ saab. This is how NWA leverages their capasity.
The bottom line is that these routes are NWA routes and they choose for whatever reasons they have, which carrier operates them on their behalf. It's nothing personal or that one pilot group is better than the other. So we're not losing HPN to Pinnacle... NWA just shifted the operator of their MSP-HPN-MSP route.
The bottom line is that these routes are NWA routes and they choose for whatever reasons they have, which carrier operates them on their behalf. It's nothing personal or that one pilot group is better than the other. So we're not losing HPN to Pinnacle... NWA just shifted the operator of their MSP-HPN-MSP route.
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