Originally Posted by
No Land 3
This is rather a unique time in aviation where people actually get multiple offers and can "choose" their regional. This was not the case when I was hired at Mesa, nor the case for anyone there hired 2013-2014ish and before. I was never able to hand pick any aviation job, it was always an "opportunity" I had to jump on.
Is Mesa more willing to give people a chance? Certainly, and I am glad for it. I only had 100 hours of currency in the past six months when I was hired.
Mesa offers a job - not a career.
Keep paying fast-food wages, make it nearly impossible to adjust one's schedule, and become an airline that very few legacies (or other upper-echelon carriers) hire from . . . and boom - this is now your career.
You have to REALLY love flying to do this job for (almost) free - AND know that you may end up stuck here.
Times have changed. Regionals no longer have a storage room full of applications that they can threaten you with.