Mesa makes it super easy to get into the right seat. Training was a lot of fun and you will make new friends. Once in IOE, the **** starts and wears you down in a month. You get your first paycheck without the training pay ($250 a week) and figure out after all the expenses of having the job ( hotels/crash pad, parking, expensive food in airports, tips to hotel drivers, etc, etc) You have NO money left over to enjoy any time off you have. After 2 months of this, $50k a year plus a fat sign on bonus is irresistible and you will start the whole training process over somewhere else. Save yourself a ton of time and energy, go to the airline where you will end up....FIRST! Mesa is bleeding pilots that have been there just a month or two. If you have someone that is helping you financially, hope that relationship stays solid or you will be sleeping in your car, if you have one.

This is not a joke, flight attendants have it worse. It's my understanding some are homeless. They work a ton so they stay at hotels during the trip and sleep in the crew room when not.