^pay for wifi???

 

Sorry, this goes way back in the thread, but can someone comment on "background issues"? I was offered a position over the phone and definitely don't want to upend my life only to be sent home. Are these logbook error/speeding ticket types of issues, or more along the lines of undisclosed felony/no medical?

 

Um, a big plus one on this one. What issues are they looking for?

Also, three month training footprint? My current carrier I was two months from DOH to the end of IOE.

 

Not legal to work in the US, possibly failed drug tests on PRIA, failed mesa drug test, undisclosed checkride failures, undisclosed felonies..your logbook just needs to show that you meet atp minimums, it doesn't have to be a squeaky clean work of art.

 

Thanks. After hearing some of the reasons people have been asked to leave Eagle interviews, I'm worried my logbook art won't be up to snuff.

 

I interviewed at eagle in the past.. It's *nothing* like that. We want to hire you, not keep a failure quota to look prestigious. Everyone in the training department is great. If you wash out it's because you don't study, lied on your paperwork, or if you fail multiple sims and they don't think you'll pass the checkride.

 

That's why they invented electronic logbooks. Save last pages as a PDF, attach, send, don't think twice about it.

 

..............+1

 

How much will you see in a first-year paycheck as a line holder at a $22/hr regional with per diem? Can you fly a lot more than the guarantee to try to make a little more?

 

If you decide to work fro Mesa just keep in mind that it's one of the worse regional's to be working for. Management will always be looking for ways to steal from you. This is a company that will only let you have one small bottle of water per leg, if you want a coke or juice they charge you for it. No other airline does that. They will steal your vacation pay, and then fight you over it. They offer less vacation weeks to bid and if you don't get your bid they will not cash out or let you bank your vacation. Every month make sure you keep track of your Per Diem and Flight pay because they will short you on your paycheck and then when you call them on it they just say sorry it must have been a mistake. Most guys don't keep track of it and the company knows that so they use it against you. I know a case of a pilot calling to get released when his wife called him and said her mother was dying, they called the company and the company said that they could not know for sure that she was dying and they could not release them. There was another IAD Captain whose father passed away while he was on a trip and when he called the company to get released, crew tracking told him he had to finish the trip because they didn't have another captain to cover it. They will be putting you up in hotels that are the cheapest they can find. They tend to be dirty and nasty and not in the safest areas. If you decide to work for Mesa more power to you, but keep in mind what type of company you will be working for.