Merger
 

Rumor on the line is that there is a merger in the works. Anyone have any supporting details on it?

I heard we were getting acquired by SkyWest. Lol. Eye roll.

Probably a ploy to get simulator time we have pilots in training! LOL

It's 100% true. The union is at this moment working on the proposed seniority integration plan. :rolleyes:

I doubt it, if a merger was imminent I doubt JO would have fired Fooley and all those other management people.

In a merger, there is an acquirer and an acquiree. Maybe, Mesa is wanting to sell before things go downhill further. Who knows? I haven’t heard this rumor yet.

Only a matter of time before we start seeing regional consolidation.

Those guys were fired because we broke the terms of the United contract in January.....

That's who... I heard we were merging with Expressjet :eek: hahaha

Yep, me too! Then, our upgrade time will go to 6 years too.

JO fired Paul Fooley?

Oh man! I can't have any of that :eek: lol :D:D

Yup he gone.

Merger? Foley was fired? Sounds interesting... So what are you all going to do when you’re at the bottom of Air Wisconsin or Skywests seniority lists?

Wouldn’t SkyWest have the same problems with us as they did with ExpressJet.... I doubt ALPA would agree to be at the bottom of any other regionals’ seniority list.

We will go to Kallita, of course.

I heard that was who we were merging with......

I heard it was a joint venture with Air Koryo.

Hmm, are you guys sure you can handle the giant increase in QOL? I mean, some Mesa guys can’t handle it and go crazy.

17 days awarded off this month. I think after January’s fail that Mesa is trying to straighten things out. Or, United is demanding Mesa straighten things out. Probably why Foley is gone.

Well, I hope you guys get the increase of QOL you all deserve.

LOL Welcome to the regionals, where it is high school all over again!! I heard about 57 rumors in 10 years at regionals and 1 came true! LOL

Best advice I can give you is to roll your eyes and move along and do your job and keep those resumes updated so you can move on to better places.

Word on the street is acquisition by Silver. :)

Florida bases are always a good thing

You are a more than half-full glass guy.

Not when I was at Mesa!

Dang! Can't believe you actually know that airline :D Not many people do I think lol Many props to you!

Why thanks. It’s a good airline for a punchline.

You might also enjoy my interview gouge for them: https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/h...xperience.html

Once flew with a guy who was a Gulf War sniper. He’d seen things. But he said it was coming here that made him start drinking.

Just spit coffee all over the place ... Thanks for the laugh ... Great way to start the day. Time for a real drink now. :D

He’s still at Mesa?

He ain't going nowhere

If you see him again please thank him for his service - in both theaters.

I sure hope it’s not with Kalitta. That is worst case scenario in my eyes, and I’m sure most of our pilots.

And cue No Land 3.....

I flew with a guy that went to Kalitta and came back to Mesa

And I am sure he blamed everyone else but himself. There have been a couple of cases. Do as you see fit, but I must say, being trapped in the regional bubble can be quite blinding.
Worth noting, everyone that has made it out to the line has stayed. Our training is not easy, no hand holding.

These stories area amazing. So many people have these elaborate explanations about how they got screwed over by Airline X. But know what I've never heard? "I failed training and now I'm here." The worst ones are those who move on from Mesa after struggling to make it to the line and then bash the company elsewhere, as though they'd be sitting in that seat without Mesa (this goes both ways. Others hire our failures too). Flew with a pilot one time who was openly grateful for the opportunity and honest about the fact that he'd probably not be here without the help Mesa game him. Very refreshing.

One of the pilots who used to regularly post here and moved on to Air Wisconsin (for the bonus, left seat and a base near his home) was very open that Mesa took a mid-50’s lawyer who wasn’t current, trained him, and made him a decent airline pilot. He wasn’t sure he would have gotten that opportunity from any other regional.

It worries me a bit that our Ejet training program is struggling. We used to have one of the best programs. Just watching to see if management will make the right changes. Judging on what one of the CA upgrades told me this month, the instructors teaching our Ejet classes now really don’t care.

Why should they? There are some good ones, but Mesa doesn't incentivize instructing in a way that would motivate high potential candidates to do the job. The good ones deserve a medal for what they do, and the bad ones need to be sent back to the line. Mesa, in general, doesn't do anything to motivate its employees and now mostly just runs on the naive good will of a young-ish labor group. During the lost decade it was 'just happy to be employed', but that's over. I've known some smart people here that deserve far better. Unfortunately, just as major airline hiring starts picking up, the process becomes closer to random selection than anything we've ever seen, leaving a lot of great people on the sidelines in exchange for 4000-hour XJT FOs. Something interesting will probably happen at Mesa in the not-too-distant future, but not sure whether it's going to be good or bad for employees.

Heard a rumor we’re buying Frontier and attempt a takeover like republic did. Just what I’ve been told. They didn’t sound too thrilled last week when we taxid behind them and I said “we’ll follow company”