I’m a new Mesa FO recently off IOE this is true, but it’s only 300% no 200%, with the 300% I ended up with 149 credit hours this past month, plus my base earned a $1,000 attendance bonus if you had perfect attendance, normally just $500 for individual attendance. With per diem around $500 I’m grossing around $6,864 this month. I didn’t sit reserve 300% any.
This doesn’t include the $30,000 gross bonus for completing training I recently received. Yes you can sit reserve shift for 12 hours pay if you have 5 hours flight and 10 flight duty available, so that’s $36 x 12= $432 to sit reserve on your day off
. Our issue is training delays but once through you can get a line pretty much right away at the moment or in 1-2 months!
The pilots I heard of last six months moving on are going to the likes of Delta, United, Spirit, Frontier, Jet Blue, Southern Air, Western Global etc.... Captains and FO’s all getting hired.