Originally Posted by
JetJock16
Are you serious? You’re basing everything upon monthly hourly guarantees? Unless you’re on reserve when does it ever matter and just how much of your regional career is spent on reserve...............what maybe 10%-20% MAX? BTW, I've never sat reserve but for most they will spend 80%-90% of their time flying a line.
*No Block or Better
*50% dead head
*SSHHIITTYY cancellation pay that turns into no pay at all
*No trip or duty rigs
*No daily guarantees
*Mandatory JR manning
*8 days off for reserves
*Majority of pilots only get 10 days off
*$1.25 per Diem
*Don't ask of time off, you won’t get it and if you call in sick you'll have to visit your CP
*Freedom "A"
*And Orenstein at the helm, this is the guy who said "as long as there are resumes on my desk, pilots are overpaid."
Now compare those numbers to Eagle and tell me if they are still close!
Deep breaths... There ya go. Firstly, im not "basing everything upon monthly hourly guarantees?". I simply posted an interesting piece of information that I recently learned. Obviously im not saying that Mesa on the whole is better than Eagle, or I would be flying there and not here.
Take another sip/hit... relax... goood.. Secondly, Guarantee is a very important issue if you have very low time lines (like we have), or if you bid CDOs or if you are on reserve/choose to bid reserve.
Turn on some Enya, meditate... Thirdly, we have terrible dead head pay, no duty rig/trip rig, and no daily guarantee. BTW, There is no such thing as "Mandatory JR manning".... especially if you have a habit of taking a nice sip of cold beer just at crew scheduling calls.
My original post wasnt a campaign for guys to go to Mesa. Simply some interesting information. One of my criticisms towards them was always their low guarantee, until I was corrected one day.