Originally Posted by
logic1
I have been at MESA for 12 years and I have been lucky also.I realize everyone has not, but some of that is of your own making. What you fail to understand is that those "top tier" regionals have not always been top tier. They became top tier after several contracts that were won by the the previous (and current)pilots efforts to make them such. We at MESA are on our 2nd contract and are in negotiations for our 3rd. This 3rd contract is where we need to clean things up. I find (through talking to other regional pilots) that they don't know the history of their carrier and think that the management gave these things willingly,I can assure you they did not. ASA spent almost 5 years getting their current contract and it is better than ours, but not much better than they could have had 5 years ago. It is easy to walk into a good contract and then put others down.It is much more difficult to stay and make one better. We would appreciate others support (as we have supported theirs) and understanding that their contracts have developed to the point they are because of hard work,support of others and time. Remember, no airline pilots 1st or 2nd contracts have ever been GREAT. It takes time.
Thats great. I just wasn't willing to continue waiting for years and years at Mesa under the old crapbag contract while JO and his crooked braintrust do everything in their power to drag the implementation of a new and better contract into place. I also saw an attrition rate of close to 100 pilots a month as a bad sign, large lawsuits yet to be determined as a bad sign and general apathy and malaise from many of the remaining pilot group not very appealing. SO, based on those factors (and others) I felt it would not be in my best interest to stay. If you stay and can make a difference, kudos. You've moved a mountain.