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Originally Posted by eaglefly (Post 736784)

The time to fight was when you had a viable company.

Mesa is in the final stages of its death roll. Johnny knows he's milked this cow almost as long as he can and it's ready to flop over. His and Mesa's name is mud in this industry and no major carrier or LLC wants anything to do with this albatross of a corporation. He's already considering what his next cow will be.

As a Mesa pilot, my advice is to plan like your next trip is your last trip and get agressive about rebuilding your career as soon and fast as possible.

This may be truth. However...on the off chance that mesa pulls out of this inverted flat spin, or manages to enter and survive the Ch.11 without liquidation, you guys don't want to be left holding a bag of poo.

Since you probably can't get a different job right now, might as well spend some energy trying to patch up what you have, if that's possible.

PDub is proactive and vocal, those are good traits for someone involved in a labor dispute. He didn't always have the best ideas IMO, but at least he's pushing the issues.

Going forward, you will be a smaller, leaner, meaner pilot group...no starry-eyed Noobs left, so everyone will have been bent over the MAG barrel once or twice. Hopefully there will be enough folks who won't roll over every time OJ threatens to take their shiny jet away.