Originally Posted by PerryPilot39

Yes, about two dozen students were railroaded in this fashion, and were wrongfully terminated. Although most have moved on and been hired by other Regionals, admitting their mistake re: Mesa, others we hear have formed an impromptu group and are looking at legal and regulatory actions.


The reality is Mesa effectively has no “training” department. It is simply a hodge-podge of put-together-when-available instructors, no syllabus, no timetable/footprint, no training standards, no task completion standards, no standardization between instructors, no evaluation standards, no transparency, and no consistency. From a regulatory perspective, this is the real criminality. An analogy is imagine training Private Pilots to the whims of each individual Examiner, which differs from Examiner to Examiner, and with no recourse. When asked to supply these things (like a PTS), Mesa refuses. They do this so they can act inconsistently, arbitrarily, and capriciously.


We’ve heard the same about those who complained. Either the programming, evaluation, or critique was rigged so that new hire would “fail”. In one case, we’ve heard the targeted new hire got a completely different test than the 5 others in his class, which was significantly more challenging. We’ve also heard of new hires who satisfactorily completed the training but were hauled before the Chief Instructor and were denied access to their test scores, exams, and grading. It’s a joke.


However, in all the classes, we’ve heard the same thing about the instructors not giving a damn, leaving early (telling the new hires to “go practice” or “go study”), disparaging the new hires in front of them, skipping material, spending class time carousing with other instructors, talking the company down, and generally not teaching. Thereafter, the instructors blame the new hires for not studying and not practicing.


The “training review board” is a farce. Nowhere within the Employment Contract, Personnel Manual, General Operating Manual, or training syllabus does anything mention a “training review board” and its policies and procedures are nowhere to be found. It is a further-rigged process, because the same person who decided to “fail” the new hire is the deciding vote in this star chamber. It therefore becomes a “beg-for-my-job” session and the new hire is evaluated solely on his butt-kissing and groveling ability.


As for ALPA at Mesa, they are connected at the hip to Management. In fact, MAG-MEC should be spelled I-N-C-E-S-T. It’s all for show and they’ve done nothing for the aggrieved new hires other than become an accomplice in this egregious disgrace of a “training” department.


Mesa can re-arrange their personnel all they want and tout it within self-adulating emails but, it's nothing more than re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.