Originally Posted by de727ups

I really hate to see the Mesa bashing. I have had two friends go from Mesa to big 121 jobs. That would be UPS and USairways. That was years ago, though. Way before Rickair's time. I have a place in Palm Springs now and commute there regularly. I have used Mesa flights out of PHX several times and the crews have been very professional and polite. The only problems I've had with my commute were on a Skywest flight out of LAS. The gate agent told me UPS pilots can't ride on Skywest and that was it. Of course, the gate agent was wrong, but sometimes you just have to smile, nod your head, and hope he's not working the next flight....

I'm no fan of JO, but the pilot group, at least from my perspective, is on par with the pilot group at Skywest with repect to professionalism and how they treat off line jumpseaters.