Originally Posted by
pitchattitude
If you’re flying the 175 out of HOU with Mesa, with the new pay rates, I definitely wouldn’t give up your seniority to go to ENY. That being said, it has a whole lot more to just giving up seniority and starting over at a new airline than it has anything to do with it being ENY or any concern of layoffs. What do you think you will gain by doing so? If there is not something significant to gain by doing so, then don’t. Giving up more than you gain. It’s a lateral move.
The training department at Mesa is in disarray. I have no idea when I’ll be able to upgrade (I have the hours by a lot) because of the emphasis on FO’s right now. Besides that, the failure rate for upgrades is very much higher than it should be because of the training department. And Mesa doesn’t have the years of 121 experience credit that Envoy does. I’d be starting at Envoy as an 8 year DEC vs a 4 or 5 year CA at Mesa. Plus the bonuses at Envoy. The money at Envoy would definitely be more.
I flew with a new Mesa CA the other day, it took him 6 months to upgrade. That’s ridiculous. At least the FO min pay would be livable now, but not when he went through it.