That's good, maybe they've changed the culture or maybe the FAA read them the riot act.

Here's some of what happened when I was there 15 years ago:

-Mesa bought some CRJ100's from a bankrupt airline. Same as the 200 just the engines were different. And Oh, by the way, they had IRS whereas Mesa's CRJ200's only had DME-DME for RNAV. Mx fixes up the jets and puts them online in PHL. First day a crew comes out, gets in the cockpit, looks at the IRS's and says WTF? No clue what they were. Major system, used for ADI alignment, etc. Mesa quickly self-discloses to the FAA and faxes out some training material.

-CRJ100 engines burned more fuel than the 200's. Several pilots landed short of destination because they were going to have to use some reserve fuel to make destination. System CP is angry, he says "reserve fuel is there to be used"

-In PHL all the reserve PIC's were from mainline USAirways and were limited by union LOA to flying only in the USAirways system, not UAL or America West. Some rocket scientist in crew planning decides to open a UAL base in PHL. Well guess what? They had no reserve coverage. So they just ordered the USAirways pilots to fly the UAL system jets (under fly now grieve later) then the next bid period they took the base and the jets to IAD.

I'm glad they're not as bad as they used to be.

Being able to drive commute vs. fly commute (Texas based) might make it worthwhile to put up with Mesa. When I left Mesa for NetJets the thing I missed the least was commuting.