Originally Posted by
beechbum
Wow...I have never heard of an airline that won't even provide a free standby pass to get to training. Mesa will even do that! This is a sign of how the company is going to treat its employees. Imagine what is going to happen after you start training and you are committed under your training agreement. I'm glad I see this now before going over there...I think we may have a new bottom feeder here.
Well, I would have to call foul on that. I strongly disagree with not positive spacing you to training, but so far most either live in MSP or like myself chose to drive my car so I would have it during training. Either way I wouldn't have used the pass even if they offered.
Since I spent about 1.5 years under Mesa's contract while working for Air Midwest, I can vouch for the difference so far. Granted I am not out of training yet and we are not even done with proving runs. When I started training for Air Midwest, we went to class 6 days a week and I didn't stay at the Marriot Residence Inn. They also made a point to say if we absolutely needed to go home during training that they would find a way to work it out for us. I know a guy at Air Midwest that was denied going to his own dad's funeral because they didn't have coverage...I don't even have words for that.
I would say that the training is quite a bit more advanced as well. With the IPT's instead of a cardboard cockpit (CPT). The people have been extremely pleasant to work with so far as well.
I know of course that it is an airline though, which by default means that is inherantly evil so I know I will get it sooner or later.
