Any word on when, if, Mesa will ever restart their cadet program? I've emailed recruiters on FB and also at mesa-air.com, several times already. Haven't heard back.

Thanks in advance.

 

I'm not sure about a cadet program, but it looks like they fired up the ole bonus machine again. That's mostly what you get from a cadet program anyway.

https://www.mesa-air.com/pilots

 

But, what I read here about things being so good, pilots had to pay Mesa a bonus, not the other way around.

You mean they exaggerated a bit?

 

Is there can ALPA phone number for cadets to use regarding their cadet contract?

 

There’s not even a number for current pilots regarding the contract

 

ALPA will not get involved in any contracts between individual pilots and the company. They represent the Pilot group as a whole. They will represent you when Mesa deviates from the PWA.

 

Lol sure they will.

 

Ahh yes. Here’s one hour of pay because we don’t know how to follow the contract we agreed to. Sad.

 

Sounds like things haven't changed since I was at Mesa 2003-2005. Scheduling acted like "Operational Necessity" voided the contract.

Back then Mesa flew for USAirways, America West, and United. Us refugees from USAirways mainline were CRJ200 PIC's out of seniority because of the Jets4Jobs LOA. But we only had "Super Seniority" in the USAirways system, not the AWA or UAL painted jets. We were limited to PHL as a base. But Mesa routinely assigned our pilots to fly AWA and UAL routes under the "fly now grieve later" protocol. They kept promising to stop but of course didn't when it was "Operational Necessity". One month someone in Crew Planning got the bright idea to open a UAL CRJ200 base in PHL. Well we had Super-Seniority for being Captains, but not for bidding schedules. So guess who all the CRJ200 reserve Captains were? Once again they just violated the LOA and quickly pulled the UAL jets out of PHL the next month. I've got many more stories like that but would be typing all morning

 

I have an interview this week for the cadet program