Originally Posted by
HandyUghes
These stories area amazing. So many people have these elaborate explanations about how they got screwed over by Airline X. But know what I've never heard? "I failed training and now I'm here." The worst ones are those who move on from Mesa after struggling to make it to the line and then bash the company elsewhere, as though they'd be sitting in that seat without Mesa (this goes both ways. Others hire our failures too). Flew with a pilot one time who was openly grateful for the opportunity and honest about the fact that he'd probably not be here without the help Mesa game him. Very refreshing.
One of the pilots who used to regularly post here and moved on to Air Wisconsin (for the bonus, left seat and a base near his home) was very open that Mesa took a mid-50’s lawyer who wasn’t current, trained him, and made him a decent airline pilot. He wasn’t sure he would have gotten that opportunity from any other regional.
It worries me a bit that our Ejet training program is struggling. We used to have one of the best programs. Just watching to see if management will make the right changes. Judging on what one of the CA upgrades told me this month, the instructors teaching our Ejet classes now really don’t care.