MESA Professional Airline Pilots,

The possibility of MESA's demise is a consideration when voting for or against this TA but not in the way you think. The airline will continue or collapse depending on the quality of its operations alone. Regardless of how they are treated the employees will always do their very best given the required training, support, and tools required. That support is entirely in the hands of management.

Voting yes for this TA is simply a vote of confidence for the way management has conducted itself in the past. The vast majority of people in this company are very hard working individuals who have continued professionally under incredibly harsh working conditions and who will continue do their very best. The demoralizing management practices of the past will only continue if you choose to accept them. The results of requiring the employees to continue under these conditions are that management will eventually exhaust all of its resources. If you want to continue understaffed, overworked, undertrained, and under appreciated then vote yes. If you want to send a clear message that now is the time to make changes and bring some integrity to your profession then vote no.

The only way this company will survive is if we demand better. Demand better management, demand better working conditions, demand better training, demand better maintenance, and demand better support in the field. With the appropriate contract and under the proper leadership this company will easily survive. To continue on the old path we've been on has an obvious conclusion.

DEMAND BETTER! DON'T BE AFRAID! VOTE NO!
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"A wave of panic passed over the vessel, and these rough and hardy men, who feared no mortal foe, shook with terror at the shadows of their own minds."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle