Originally Posted by
paxhauler85
If this is how you feel, then quit rooting for me and my co-workers to lose our jobs.
Instead, join our cause: Rooting for a buyout (or anything else that gets every piece of MAG brass out of here) and a improved contract.
We don't enjoy being the worst airline in the regional industry, but after spending 2 years here, the left seat I am sitting in is my ticket out of regionals and to a better life. There are hundreds more just like me.
Please help (if it is only moral support) us keep our paychecks coming, and futures alive. Putting 500 CA's on the street with less than 1000 TPIC, and countless FO's out of a job will do nothing but make our (the airline industry) situation worse.
Do you really want to see more pilots on the street?
Do you really want to see JO out at the expense of 1600 pilots?
When you went there to get the sacred 1000 TPIC did you think about how Mesa wrecks the rest of the industry? Did you think about the pilots who are screwed regularly by JO and his business practices? Inside and outside of Mesa?
Don't say you don't enjoy working for the worst airline in the industry when you went there by choice. For the past several years any pilot could have gone to just about any other carrier. But instead hundreds of pilots have decided that they were going to sell themselves out to Mesa for the quick upgrade.
The contract at Mesa has been used as the example to every other pilot in this business to cut costs. "Mesa does it for this price, why won't you?" "Mesa allows only 8 days per month off? Why won't you do it like that?"
So don't come whining when many parts of the rest of the industry would like nothing more than to see Mesa as a company go away. The business practices that Mesa has used are examples of why this business is going downhill.
Do I want to see Mesa pilots without jobs? No. But nobody there didn't know exactly what they were signing up for when they signed up.