Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
Since the mods unfairly (but predictably) deleted my response, but not your original flamebait, let me repeat my response slightly nicer. It's utterly clueless of you to have no perspective of what regional pilots and this industry have been through since 2000. Just because you're new and think you have it so good at Mesa
maybe you should do more listening and less talking until you get a deeper perspective. At a regional like ASA where upgrades happen at 8+ years, 13 years isn't that much. The mainline furloughs in the early 2000s and age 65 causing 8 years of stagnation sure didn't help. But the up side is that we have a liveable contract in the even that the economy takes another dump, or there's another terrorist attack and the industry implodes again. I hope it works out for you at Mesa, and I mean that as sarcastically as possible.
Not to mention ASA and Air whiskey were once places where a career could happen. Mesa was never at that level since they were putting 300 hour Arizona state grads in the right seat when they were growing. The purpose was never for them to stick around. Meanwhile at air Wisconsin the 146 guys signed contract 2000 and had projected captain rates at 136/hour.. Perspective is key here, kids.