Originally Posted by
tinman1
From what I hear, isn't that pretty much everyone regional out there? Or is Mesa worse than the others?
With the new part 117 rule Mesa's schedules have been at best "crap". Friends over at SkyWest and Whiskey are still seeing 15 days off with 88 hour lines. I don't know if Airways gives us the unworkable schedules or is it Mesa just being lazy. But United would also have to be giving us crap because the schedules in ORD suck as well. A lot of out station sits of over 2 hours, 11 days off per bid with six days on continuous will be the norm from now on I heard. Got buddies in the union who have gone to management and complained, they were told they have no desire to change things at the moment. I think that will eventually wear on some of us who enjoyed our 90 hour lines with at least 14 days off. Especially commuters. That 4 day off minimum between trips over at Spirit looks mighty good right now. It's good for the new folks coming on here at Mesa. Could cause people to leave that previously had no desire to. But, got to watch out though, this happened in 07' and it devastated this company with crew cancellations and delays. I think it caused the loss of the United and Delta contracts even though Mesa said otherwise. So many people got tired of the JRA's and crap schedules there was a mass exodus, I believe we lost over 700 pilots in just over a year.