Originally Posted by
DeadStick
A few weeks ago I had a chode-box CA try to tell me I was an idiot for voting no. I wanted to whip it out and [relieve myself] on his face. Is the mesa pilot group divided? Absolutely.
HAHAHAHA OMG I haven't heard "Chode-box" since high school. That's the funniest thing I have heard all week. Thank you for making me laugh, I needed that.
No but really, I don't believe this is a direct result of PBS. I really did at first, but like I said, once I found out more info, I changed my tune of thinking. Yes it starts next bid, but I think that's just a coincidence. If attrition had kept up where it was in the fall, I don't think this would have happened. Then again, I'm just some pion pilot, and I have no idea what I'm talking about, so I could just be talking out of my you know what.
Originally Posted by
InvertedLoop
I actually agree with DublinFlyer that this is not Pbs related now that I look at this more closely. You can't just look at the roster for determining how far back this goes. There are people on leave and these numbers are incorrect. You have to look at the seniority list. From that it looks like it will go back to around 2/12/08 class, number 1307 on the list. Of those bottom 100, 35 are dash fo's. There are 64 pilots already on furlough from Mesa. Plus these 100 it will equal the approx. first 150 the company annouced back whenever September, and then the show generously cancelled because of Christmas. The only reason the cancelled these was because if they furloughed them guys there dash operation would have came to a hault. That's why they realized that they had to run this Displacement. Most of the classes are finished now, so they can continue with the furloughes. I beleive these 100 are not tied to PBS. That's why I believe in say June or July once the company figures the way to run pbs to get them the most bang for there buck you will see another furlough of even more pilots. So to you junior fo's in ORD and JFK hope you enjoy your block or better while it lasts, because you should have voted NO!
I don't know if I forsee more furloughs later or not - but I can definitely see them getting these 100 pilots off property, and then going "OOPS! We actually needed them!" And then they would have to pay for more training to get them back online, so perhaps they would just keep them on furlough and have an understaffed airline like we did last year. I have no faith in our management. A bunch of incompetent idiots up there.
So lets see here, on the current seniority list (On Pilot louge, seniority list, "View All Domiciles"), is that the most up to date one, not including our 64 pilots we have on furlough now? I'm sure there is more involved with just pulling the bottom 100 off that list isn't there?