Yeah, you guys are right, soon your pay and work rules will lead the industry... And then your airline will be systematically dumped by every major.
No one uses Mesa because of Quality,
only because of Cost.
BTW, what is it that makes other pilot groups "better" than Mesa pilots?
Well sport, I thought mentioning Air wiskey and Atlantic Coast in the previous post would have clued you in. Their contracts were alot better than yours, thus they were more expensive contracts for those companies. When United said "do it as cheap as Mesa or we will replace you..."
Well, you know the rest of that story.
I will no longer put words in your mouth. But I will ask a few simple questions. Would YOU, be willing to walk the picket line for a month like Comair...? Would you be willing to maintain the strength of your contract at the expense of seeing your flying go elsewhere like Piedmont...? Would YOU be willing to have all of the CRJ-900's parked in the future because it is now cheaper for the majors to operate that flying like US Airways, Northwest, and jetBlue are starting to do (whose pilot groups had to take deep concessions so they could keep that flying instead of losing it to you guys)...?
Go ahead, answer the big question, are YOU willing to downgrade back to F/O or never upgrade in return for better QOL at Mesa...? Are the Majority of Mesa pilots willing to do the same...?
Suuuure, many of your guys probably think such a thing will "never happen", but what exactly do you think Johnny O is going to threaten your pilots with this time...?
With the Dash and Beech flying tenuous at best, and the market for 50 seat jets drying up fast, you can damn well bet that in the next two years he will hold that over you guys (if not beforehand).
And he is right, the ONLY way for you guys to maintain what you have, or to continue to grow is to undercut other pilot groups. why else use you guys if you are not cheaper...?
Your good looks
Hmmm, nope.
Scoll to the thread that has Horizon asking it's pilots for pay cuts to remain competitive. WTF do you think they are talking about having to compete pay-wise...?
Every other pilot group out there has wished and prayed for Mesa to fight for a better contract, only to see them cave in again and again. And then we get to watch you take over our flying as a result (most recently in IAD, CLT, and CLT). So yeah, I take issue with your promise that your pilot group will do things differently "this time".
Good luck in your upcoming "negotations". I will look you up after they are done to say "I told you so" when you see that I am right.