Originally Posted by
journey2
There are statistics published about what legacy airlines the regional airlines lose pilots to. Mesa doesn’t send nearly as many pilots to mainline legacy carriers as other regional airlines.
I see Mesa as a "starter regional" and I'm sure others do too. A lot of F/Os get experience they need, then make a lateral move to a better regional such as Endeavor. The pay is not there to stay long enough to be a Captain, but some people will stay anyway for their own personal reasons.
If anyone signs on with Mesa with the original intent to make a lateral move later, they’re aggressively ignorant. It’s attitudes like this that allow a company to even exist with such poor management, and such a substandard contract.