Originally Posted by
newarkblows
I dont think anything is official yet. The extension was not granted for those aircraft but that just means that United felt that they could renegotiate better rates and a better contract. There has been a bidding war going on between xjt, tsa, skywest, and mesa for this contract. Your contract wasn't renewed but there could still be a "new" mesa contract with cheaper rates but with the same old airplanes. Same thing could very well go for the Dash's as well.
\
you never know. The ASA 13 aircraft thing and the TSA recalls are not good signs for mesa to continue this flying.
Good on ya for being optimistic, or at least trying to cheer us up. But seriously - it's over. Unless UAL doesn't care one bit about their product (I mean not even a teensy tiny bit) then we will not be signing a new contract. I am embarrassed to work for Mesa most days. Our planes are so crappy, torn up, broke down and it just rolls down hill as our performance numbers suffer. If JO, Lotz and cronies would have put just a LITTLE investment into our operation to keep our planes halfway decent, our performance would have been a heck of a lot better. In fact, towards the end, if we cut out like 7 D-0 events a day, we'd go from last, to first.... according to management (take it with a grain of salt now). But, they just wanted to keep cutting back, and before long, they had a poor operation based on crappy airplanes.
It's a shame to see. The Mesa pilots put a lot of effort into this. I worked really hard to do the best I could. The rest of our folks did too. We could have had something good here.
Originally Posted by
Boomer
Delta has already cut Comair that deep, but instead of a quick stab ours is from a hundred papercuts on top of one another.
Our 2005 contract specified 199 aircraft. Next year we'll be at 85.
You guys only have 85 airplanes?!?!??!
OMG I didn't realize it was that bad over there! Holy moly.