Originally Posted by PilotCrusader (Post 1817478)

My biggest concern with going to Mesa is the pay, lowest per diem out there (is it $1.36 or $1.44?)and ridiculously high medical costs. In fact, I would say if you have a family and cannot get medical any other way, easily 40-50% of your first years monthly salary could go to that alone.

Originally Posted by PilotCrusader (Post 1817478)

That makes more sense. If you are a commuter I could see this numbers. The FO I was talking to lives here and I assume flying 2 days at the time - much less per diem but home a lot more.



My biggest concern with going to Mesa is the pay, lowest per diem out there (is it $1.36 or $1.44?)and ridiculously high medical costs. In fact, I would say if you have a family and cannot get medical any other way, easily 40-50% of your first years monthly salary could go to that alone.

Originally Posted by PiperPower (Post 1798617)

What are the terms?

Originally Posted by VanDriver208 (Post 1798287)

I've heard that the terms of this Delta contract are pretty ludicrous, and that's why no one wants to take the flying. Its easy to get excited when we hear about new flying, but we are starting to run into trouble staffing what we have. I heard the number of 200's for Delta could be as high as 40! Where are we going to find the pilots to operate them. If that's the case, I hope we turn down the deal. Delta should just continue to take back their regional flying putting mainline metal on it, so we can all move along with our careers... Just my .02.

Originally Posted by Blackwing (Post 1817507)

Or more. One of my classmates has his *entire check* going to health insurance for his family. I don't know how he does it. Same goes for management.

Originally Posted by MartinC08 (Post 1817686)

Is it pretty reliable to use the international flight benefits on the UA side?....if there's 20+ seats being shown as open on a flight that's in 24 hrs, do you have a good chance of getting on?

Originally Posted by Navmode (Post 1817708)

Seriously, what kind of question is that? flight benefits give you the ability to list for flights.. If there are 20 seats open and 20 people buy seats, then they're gone. If the flight before cancels, they're gone. It's the same as if you were mainline ua, the only difference is priority.

Originally Posted by 24/48 (Post 1817415)

That's great experience, but the average CRJ/ERJ/Ejet Captain has a majority of their experience in Canada, lower 48, and Mexico. I'm quite certain that this will be the dominant population in new-hire classes should these carriers arrive on our shores. So after 6 months, even a year with 800 or so hours, is that person safe to upgrade?

Originally Posted by 24/48 (Post 1817415)

That's great experience, but the average CRJ/ERJ/Ejet Captain has a majority of their experience in Canada, lower 48, and Mexico. I'm quite certain that this will be the dominant population in new-hire classes should these carriers arrive on our shores. So after 6 months, even a year with 800 or so hours, is that person safe to upgrade?