Originally Posted by
calmwinds
(Every airline) except Allegiant. :-)
Thank you for the tutorial. I appreciate you
and your teams efforts on our behalf.
I wish we had more 28 hour 4-days (like some of our competition) and fewer two leg days in the middle. I would like to have a 12 day working month (and 18 days off per month) like some of my friends at other regionals.
My biggest complaint about flying at Mesa deal with its inept ability for the training department to get pilots to the line, and what that inept ability does to the QOL for line pilots.
Says the pilot who likes to lick the boots of his bosses.
Apparently, we can now add Mesa's MEC to that list.
So what exactly do you appreciate? The wage disparity? How about the FO starting pay that actually DECREASES during the life of the contract? The disproportionately-high cost of mediocre medical and dental insurance? The consistently unproductive pairings?
And then there's reserve. Base assisting on a random basis? Airport standby on a regular basis?
Oh, here's one . . . the MEC is suing Mesa in federal court for paying bonuses to new-hire pilots without negotiating said bonuses with ALPA first, while simultaneously taking union 'dues' out of these same bonuses when they're paid to a pilot.
I could go on and on. The company is holding all the cards. The pilots are begging for scraps. The 'union' is taking 'protection' money from our paychecks - ostensibly to 'protect' us from all this.
Except they're not.
What a deal, huh?