Not really up in the air, just keeps getting postponed. I know I'll have a checkride, just don't know when. I've been leaving messages with scheduling all morning, and I'll probably drop in over there this afternoon.
As far as the company, who knows? Compass is more than likely gonna cut into our flying, but the boys over at Mesaba are getting the shaft a lot worse than we are. The movement here right now is mostly due to pilots leaving for other airlines (both FOs going to other regionals/fractional/corporate and captains getting on with FedEx, SWA, etc), so there's not a lot of growth. The good thing about the Compass deal is we MIGHT get let out of our "NWA only" clause in the service agreement. If we can get that taken out, then we can pursue flying at other airlines. We might not be as cheap as regionals like Mesa, but our overhead is one of the lowest in the industry and we've got a better on-time and completion record than they do. So, hopefully that might make us a competitor down the road with some of their contracts. With United coming out of Ch 11 finally, they might be willing to pay a bit more green for a higher quality of service instead of lowest bidder, but who knows.
I went with PCL because it was the best fit for me. If I could look down the road and see for sure what was gonna happen, I wouldn't be flying airplanes.
Worst case scenario-PCL shrinks and stays shrunk, best case-we get some more flying from other airlines and start growing again, absolute best case (i.e. not-gonna-happen-likely) we can underbid Compass and keep some of our flying.