Originally Posted by
Brody
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?
Obviously, you don’t know JO. He doesn’t wear boots. I enjoy being home based in IAH and being able to upgrade in 2 years. I enjoy flying the Ejet. I like my job and the flying assigned.
Except for the lawsuit, which the MEC lost, complaints like that exist at every regional. My buddy at SKW complains he hasn’t flown in 6 months and has to get current in the SIM. And, SKW pays $2 per hour for FO’s, has better insurance, but base assist and don’t have block or better. No 300%. At all regionals, management holds the cards - just look to the complaints at other regionals.
I routinely refer pilots to check out other regionals. If I was doing it over, I might have gone to COMPASS. Why haven’t you moved on if you hate it here that much? Envoy is taking FO’s with 950 hours 121 time into their street captain program, paying them $45k signing bonus, putting them on the 145 in LGA.