Guest AME Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 9:05 AM EDT Friday Laid-off US Airways pilots go to Mesa Mesa Airlines is calling a handful of unemployed US Airways Group Inc. pilots back to work. Mesa Airlines told US Airways this week it has scheduled a training class for six pilots and six first officers who had been laid off from US Airways, according to a posting on an Air Line Pilots Association Web site. The pilots will be brought back to fly for Mesa, a Phoenix-based regional airline that flies under the US Airways Express banner, under a "jets-for-jobs" agreement. In exchange for concessions allowing for the use of new, smaller and more efficient regional jets, US Airways agreed that furloughed pilots would fly some of those planes as they were phased in. Eligible pilots are being sought to fill the six positions by Friday. US Airways said last month that it would not take delivery of 25 regional jets it had ordered from Montreal-based Bombardier Aerospace, but would have Mesa Air Group Inc. take the planes instead. The 25 jets were part of a $4.3 billion aircraft order US Airways, based in Arlington, Va., placed in May. US Airways, which operates a hub at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, said it made the decision after it failed to agree with the pilots' association on terms under which the 25 70-seat Bombardier CRJ-705 aircraft would be flown. US Airways is based in Virginia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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