my humble opinion is that it's the company not the pilots that gives mesa a bad name. We sit here working for what we think are better regionals and blame other pilots for mesa buisness ethics. We should be thankfull that we got that interview instead of going to mesa and now we are here it is easy to say "i'd never work for mesa." The pilots at Mesa are just looking for a J.O.B. Perhaps they entered the industry when only Mesa would hire them, some prob have a better commute working for them? Can you really blame them? Those that are married may go to Mesa because they can be with their kids more often due to their bases. Some stay because they have Sen. in the company and don't wanna start over again. It is easy to blame the pilots but it isn't them that for example skrewed Aloha. They are no less qualified to fly an CRJ/ERJ at ASA, Skywest, Comair etc. They all passed their checkrides like we do and many of them had an FAA jumpseater one time or another and passed. Being prior military also, I consider this line of work like a brotherhood. We all HELP one another get to work and find work when times are bad. Look at all these boards, how many times has one pilot told another pilot to PM him to help him out? I fly for ASA and when I can, I try and help out the Mesa/Republic/Airtran or whoever that is going to work, I have taked myself off the J/S list out of Orlando before because I knew I can get on the flight non-rev and let the guy who can't list non-rev to list J/S. We can be our best allies or our worst enemies. Why not be allies? Over all our quality of life would be much better.