ASA or Mesaba?

[MELIT]

Stay away from ASA unless you can learn to be a whiner. Besides they won't be around in another two years.

 

[Abbey]

Mesaba is a great place to get 5000 hours in the right seat of a turboprop. After that, you will be updating your resume because you are tired of being a profesional copilot/furloughed only to find that you still are only qualified to apply to another regional.

My advice would be to skip all the above and go to a regional where you can actually upgrade so you don't have to apply to more regionals in 7 years time.

 

[Smarta$$]

Econimics 101. Buy low, sell high.

I dig all these aviation academics posing theory after theory as to why you should shy away from XJ. Many of these wonders were amongst those flying like mad in the nicest regional jet in the industry (Avro) during the madest time of growth, just a short time ago. Much of that experience landed them a pretty sweet job at the carrier they now fly for (better pastures). It was a wonderful time of great growth at XJ, just like this next wave appears to be. Yet for some reason, many of these nay sayers have lost perspective. Bitter? Possibly ... (for some odd reason). Perhaps they lost perspective. There are plenty of examples of airlines that have risen from the ashes (too many to list). Bottom line ... now is probably the BEST time to start at Mesaba. Investors might just have a clue in. And if you look at the business plan, it could quite possibly be the best choice in the industry for getting a nice resume built in order to move on - should you choose (all due respect to many of those seven year+ FO's). This 900 will compete as the nicest ride in the regional airline industry (XJ again). Six months from now, we'll all be creamin' over it. NWA has a lot of things riding on this purchase. Good luck.

PS .97 on the $1.

I think this guy grew the sugar, mixed the batch and then drank ALL of the koolaid.

 

[XJPilot547]

Don't follow the advice to go wherever you get the first class date. I did that and I am now a 6+ year FO at Mesaba. I could've went to XJet and been a captain awhile ago. Having said that, the Mesaba I know sucks. I arrived at the tail end of growth and have been stuck with my only option is starting at another regional. However, if you were to be hired here in the first few classes, you will be at the beginning of some growth and probably upgrade only a few classes behind us career FOs. If I had this choice right now, I still wouldn't come here. Go to Skywest or Shaniqua. PIC is everything.

 

[DetoXJ]

Don't follow the advice to go wherever you get the first class date. I did that and I am now a 6+ year FO at Mesaba. I could've went to XJet and been a captain awhile ago. Having said that, the Mesaba I know sucks. I arrived at the tail end of growth and have been stuck with my only option is starting at another regional. However, if you were to be hired here in the first few classes, you will be at the beginning of some growth and probably upgrade only a few classes behind us career FOs. If I had this choice right now, I still wouldn't come here. Go to Skywest or Shaniqua. PIC is everything.

Now your telling people to go to Shaniqua? This was your stance not too long ago on them.

TAWS is at Shaniqua/Republic. Talk about selling out. Way too many hypocrites on here.

Who is the hypocrite?