Originally Posted by wt932051

For those of you wondering why Mesa has the worst contract right now, you can thank Freedom Airlines and those pilots for making us at Mesa trade a pay raise and better contract rigs for scope and language to bring it all back over to one list. JO was going to shut Mesa down. Freedom didn't have a union and JO would have had a wet dream. We did not allow that to happen. Ever since then however, Mesa has been behind trailing everyone else and we have gotten bashed for it. Yet the blame lyes with those Freedom pilots and what they did to this airline. Almost no one at other regionals understand what happened and just love to blame Mesa for bringing the regional industry down but if they educated themselves they could thank not Mesa but Freedom A list pilots. Backstabbers have destroyed this profession.

So for those new guys this is why Mesa is what it is today.