deltajuliet

American plans to keep PHX at its current hub status for the foreseeable future. We'll be done with LAX flying by August, and that is transferring over to DFW where all the tentative American growth will be located. We'll also be trying to recapture some of the SkyWest 900 business in Phoenix. All the transition issues and growing pains have affected our performance; he acknowledged that but said they expect things to go much more smoothly once we are done with LA and fully settled in DFW. There was also mention of potential supplemental DFW bases like Austin, but that remains to be seen.

Charlotte is scheduled to close July 5.

Dulles and Houston should stay about the same. We're aggressively trying to get the second batch of Ejets, and if we do they'll most likely end up somewhere other than Houston. But JO often referred to how other regionals have "something to trade," like voluntarily terminating their 50-seat contracts early. Not just with the United Ejets but with any potential new business.

It sounds like Delta and Mesa might consider doing business again. It sounded more substantive than just "it'd be nice," and he even mentioned the possibility of Minneapolis, but nothing was concrete. I also got the impression that he wouldn't be interested in doing any 200 flying for them.

An FO brought up our first year pay, to which JO brought up second year Captain pay. Flow through was also asked about, and JO said our union was more interested in other things like pay during contract negotiations, so it hasn't been actively pursued, although they've been working on flow through from the other end (135 operators sending their pilots to Mesa once they're at 1500).

As far as street Captains, he said they'll consider it if we don't have anyone eligible to upgrade but his priority is people who are already here. In that respect, he said he'd rather prolong growth (take deliveries more slowly) to give our people the chance to reach 1000 SIC. However, in spite of how junior the last upgrade went, there are apparently a lot of people who could upgrade but have held off for whatever reason.

He intends to double Mesa's size over the next three years.

RV5M

Interesting. I wonder if they'll announce a TA during the ALPAz call on the 9th.


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20sx

I felt like there was some optimism about continued growth. They seem to like the 2 planes a month addition to the fleet. They mentioned growth through 2018.

FlyHigh423

Slow and steady sounds good to me

airborne840

Has anyone heard how many new hires started Indoc this past week?

Thisiswitty

Hey,

Sent you another PM.
Thanks

deltajuliet

They said the last two classes were full, so 20-30.

milehighskyline

So Been here at Mesa since March. So far very impressed with the training and the company in general. Our ground instructor was CT. Awsome and very knolodagble instructor. Getting ready to start FPT training and sims are going to be toronto or YYV (crj crews) Any way we asked JO about the pay and yes he went in to the "capitan upgrade speach" Which is true. Alot quicker upgrade than most regionals but is more of an excuse to pay 1st year FOs our min wage. during training my checks are $712. I would make more on unemplyment this year than flying these jets. Recieved an Email from the company telling us to refer our friends to fly for mesa. Honestly if they want us to do this they need to offer a 1-3k bonous for each person that we reffer and gets hired paid to the pilot on first day of the reffereds indoc. Give us ways to "earn" more pay. Untill then I am not going to recomend mesa to friends or other pilots simply because the pay is way to low for the equipment we are flying. I am much more intrested in helping fixing this problem than prolonging it. So looks like i will be TDYing it as much as I can this year and going in to more debt. This company has great moral solid growth, great training. The only huge negative that I have seen so far is the pay. And it needs to be addressed. I talked to a union rep about this and I recieved the impression that not much is being done about it. It almost did not even sound like it was a concern to the union which is a little troubling to me.

milehighskyline

yes we felt the same way but if we buy envoy then it may be possible. I ran some numbers on the computer and seems like a relistic goal. Supossly we are very close to buying another opperator. Strong rumor is envoy. that woud be hell combining that senority list.

milehighskyline

Why for the CRJ? Most CRJ Fos are upgraining on the Ejet which tells me that their are plenty in line to upgrade on the CRJ not needing street capitans. or am I missing something?